Q.41 An astronaut in outer space will observe sky as
(A) White
(B) Black
(C) Blue
(D) Red
Q.42 Which of the following planets rotates in a direction opposite to the direction of earth's rotation?
(A) Mars
(B) Jupiter
(C) Venus
(D) Mercury
Q.43 What is the average distance (approximate) between the Sun and the Earth?
(A) 70 x 105 km
(B) 100 x 105 km
(C) 110 x 106 km
(D) 150 x 106 km
Q.44 NASA's Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
(A) Halley's Comet
(B) Hale-Bopp
(C) Hyakutake
(D) Tempel 1
Q.45 Which of the following planets has a lesser rotation time than the Earth?
(A) Jupiter
(B) Mars
(C) Mercury
(D) Venus
Q.46 What is the name of the first woman space tourist?
(A) Jullian Moore
(B) Anousheh Ansari
(C) Paula Radcliffe
(D) Namira Salim
Q.47 Storms of gases are visible in the atmospheres of the Sun during
(A) Cyclones
(B) Anticyclones
(C) Lunar eclipse
(D) Solar eclipse
Q.48 The name of the world's first black spaceman is
(A) Prensa Latina.
(B) Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez.
(C) Yury Rumanenko.
(D) Robert Mendereze.
Q.49 The first person to enter into space was
(A) Valentina Tereshkova
(B) Edward H. White
(C) Yuri Gagarin
(D) Alan Shepard
Q.50 How much time does light require to travel distance of 150,000,000 kilometres from the Sun to the earth?
(A) 8 1/3 minutes
(B) 8 1/2 minutes
(C) 8 1/4 minutes
(D) 9 minutes
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