Science GK Questions and Answers for SSC Exam

Science GK Questions

Q.41 An astronaut in outer space will observe sky as

(A) White

(B) Black

(C) Blue

(D) Red

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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

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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

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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

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Q.45 Which of the following planets has a lesser rotation time than the Earth?

(A) Jupiter

(B) Mars

(C) Mercury

(D) Venus

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Q.46 What is the name of the first woman space tourist?

(A) Jullian Moore

(B) Anousheh Ansari

(C) Paula Radcliffe

(D) Namira Salim

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Q.47 Storms of gases are visible in the atmospheres of the Sun during

(A) Cyclones

(B) Anticyclones

(C) Lunar eclipse

(D) Solar eclipse

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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.

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Q.49 The first person to enter into space was

(A) Valentina Tereshkova

(B) Edward H. White

(C) Yuri Gagarin

(D) Alan Shepard

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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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