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ISRO launches 10 Rockets to study Solar Eclipse

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Saturday, 16 January 2010 13:05 -

Thiruvananthapuram: Breaking News! The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

launched 10 Rohini series indigenous sounding rockets from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket

Launching Station at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and Satish Dhawan SpaceCentre in Sriharikota on Thursday and Friday to study solar eclipse.

Yesterday, on January 15, the longest annular solar eclipse of the century occurred and was

visible in almost all parts of India.

The VSSC launched two sounding rockets each of the type RH 300 Mk II and RH 200 onThursday and and three sounding rockets of the type RH 300 Mk II and two sounding rockets of

RH 200 on Friday from Thumba.

The VSSC also launched a larger Rohini rocket of the RH 560 Mk II series from Sriharikota on

Friday. The annular solar eclipse occurred over Thumba at 11.15 PM yesterday. It achieved an

obscuration of 91 per cent and lasted for about 11 minutes.

The rockets will collect relevant data on atmospheric structure and dynamics at different

altitudes from the earth before, during and after the eclipse.

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