Daily Current Affairs Quiz 22 May 2023

d) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

“Meri LiFE, Mera Swachh Shehar” is a mega campaign of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Its aim is to promote the reduce, reuse and recycle concept in waste management. This nationwide campaign aims to highlight cities to setup ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (RRR) Centres, one stop collection centres to contribute clothes, shoes, old books, toys and used plastic to be reused or recycled.

b) Maharashtra

Union Minister Parshottam Rupala, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying (MoFAHD), launched the “Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V” in Karanja, Raigad, Maharashtra.
• The yatra started on 17th May 2023 from Gateway of India, Mumbai concluded on 19th May 2023 in Goa.
• It aims to resolve the issues of the fishermen and stakeholders and ensure their economic upliftment.
• The Program ‘Sagar Parikrama’ has successfully completed 4 phases, covering 19 locations in Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Maharashtra, and Karnataka.

c) UNWTO

World Tourism Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. According to the second UNWTO World Tourism Barometer of the year, international tourism is rebounding to pre-pandemic levels.
Around 235 million tourists travelled internationally in the first three months of 2023. Overall, international arrivals reached 80% of pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2023.

a) 1, 2 and 3

Spitzer was designed to detect infrared radiation, which is primarily heat radiation.
· It allows to peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes.

· It was launched in 2003 by NASA, U.S.

· It was comprised of two major components:

· The Cryogenic Telescope Assembly – contained the 85 centimeter telescope and Spitzer’s three scientific instruments.

· The Spacecraft – controlled the telescope, provided power to the instruments, handled the scientific data and communicated with Earth. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

It is the final mission in NASA’s Great Observatories Program a family of 4 space-based observatories each observing the Universe in a different kind of light.
· The other missions in the program include the visible-light Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO).

· Spitzer continued to operate until 2020. Hence, statement 2 is correct.

Spitzer Resurrection Mission

· The innovation arm – SpaceWERX of the United States Space Force selected a startup Rhea Space Activity, to develop the Spitzer Resurrector Mission.

· The mission aims to send a spacecraft to Spitzer to service and restore its operation.

· This will act as a demonstration for the In-space Service Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) techniques.

· After its resurrection, the telescope will be used to detect and characterise the potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and for other astronomical observations. Hence, statement 3 is correct.

The Spitzer Resurrection Mission will send a telerobotic space probe to bring the Spitzer space telescope back to life.

a) Brazil

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed for the first time by Brazil. Two cases were detected in wild birds.
Brazil is the world’s top chicken exporter and the government confirmed the detection of H5N1 subtype of the influenza virus on two birds. While humans can contract H5N1, cases remain very rare.