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Details on
Space & Atmospheric Science
Courses
Beginning
with space exploration in early fifties, space sciences and
the technologies thus developed have made inroads in almost
every sphere of human life. Today, space sciences and
technologies are being used for not only exploring the
earth's environment and pouter space but in a number of
other applications. Reliable global communication through
satellites, accurate weather forecasts through
meteorological satellites, TV broadcasts and educational-programmes,
remote sensing of earth's resources, satellite navigation,
satellite geodesy and satellite based disaster warning
systems are some of the applications that play a crucial
role in our day to day life. Space platforms such as
balloons, rockets and satellites or deep space probes are
being used to probe the oceans, earth's near environment,
upper atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, solar system
and beyond.
Thus space sciences, technology and applications are
inter-disciplinary. There is a need therefore for trained
manpower in the discipline of space sciences in every part
of the globe so that various space related activities can be
managed harmoniously. In view of this, the Centre has
initiated an educational programme in the form of Post
Graduate course in space and atmospheric science at Physical
Research Laboratory (PRL). The PRL is a premier centre of
space sciences in India. After having its modest beginning
in space and atmospheric sciences in early fifties, the
laboratoty has now diversified its activities in a number of
disciplines, such as ionospheric physics, atmospheric
physics, astronomy, astrophysics, etc. Over the years, the
laboratory has developed very sophisticated ground based as
well as space-borne experiments, a number of which were
built for the first time in the world. Some of these
include, rocker-borne Langmuir probe, electric field probe,
rubidium vapor and proton precession magnometers, vapor
release experiments, mass spectrometers ground based
photometers, interferometers, spectrometers and all sky
imagers, lidars, gas chromatographs, laboratory astrophysics
experiments, ionosondes, infrared telescopes, etc. The
laboratory in having a very active doctoral and
post-doctoral programmes.
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