Question

Give five ways in which artificial satellites are useful to us.

Answer 1

Answer:

Weather forecasting.

Satellite communication.

Television and Radio transmission.

For locating mineral resources, underground water and for land mapping.

Collecting information about other planets.

Answer 2

αnswers :-

Artificial satellites are very useful to us ::

• They help in television and radio transmission.
• They help in telephone communication.

• They help us to study and forecast the weather by sending the pictures of clouds to  the Earth, taken from space.

• They help scientists to understand the universe by collecting various information  from space.

• They help in locating minerals and studying agricultural yield on the earth by  photographing land from above. This is known as remote sensing, which means –  collecting information from a distance.

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More :-

Scientists of several countries including India have sent artificial satellites into space . These satellites revolve around the Earth . The first satellite was sent by USSR on 4 October 1957 . It was called Sputnik – I . Today , there are many satellite in space . India sent her first satellite into space on 19 April 1975 . It was called Aryabhata . Since then , India has sent many more artificial satellites in space .

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