Match the following missions to their respective purposes:
List-I List-II Mission Purpose (A) Chandrayaan-3 (I) Development and launch of a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite (B) Gaganyaan-3 (II) Attempt for soft landing on moon (C) NISAR (III) Solar Observatory Mission (D) Aditya-L1 (IV) India's first crewed (human) space mission
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Match the following missions to their respective purposes:
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| Mission | Purpose |
| (A) Chandrayaan-3 | (I) Development and launch of a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite |
| (B) Gaganyaan-3 | (II) Attempt for soft landing on moon |
| (C) NISAR | (III) Solar Observatory Mission |
| (D) Aditya-L1 | (IV) India's first crewed (human) space mission |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Solution
Option 1 -> Chandrayaan-3 matches with soft landing on moon, Gaganyaan-3 with human space mission, NISAR with synthetic aperture radar satellite, and Aditya-L1 with Solar Observatory - this is the accurate matching.
Option 2 -> Incorrectly matches Chandrayaan-3 with radar satellite and NISAR with moon landing - fundamentally wrong pairing.
Option 3 -> Incorrectly matches Chandrayaan-3 with human mission and Aditya-L1 with moon landing - completely reversed mission purposes.
Option 4 -> Incorrectly matches Chandrayaan-3 with solar mission and Aditya-L1 with moon landing - wrong assignment of space exploration goals.
Hence, Option 1: (A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (III) -> Chandrayaan-3 successfully achieved soft landing on the moon's south polar region in August 2023; Gaganyaan-3 is ISRO's ambitious human spaceflight program; NISAR is a collaborative NASA-ISRO earth observation satellite using dual-frequency SAR technology; and Aditya-L1 is India's first dedicated solar mission studying the Sun from the L1 Lagrange point -> correct
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