📖 Chapter 10 of 10 · Mysterious Space- Basic 1 · Class 5–6
A Little Space Glossary
- Astronaut
- A person who travels into space and floats there.
- Chandrayaan-3
- India's spacecraft that landed near the Moon's south pole in 2023.
- Day
- The time when our side of the spinning Earth faces the Sun.
- ISRO
- India's space team, the Indian Space Research Organisation.
- Moon
- The Earth's neighbour in space. It shines by reflecting the Sun's light and gently pulls our tides.
- Night
- The time when our side of the spinning Earth faces away from the Sun.
- Rocket
- A powerful machine that pushes hot gas downwards to fly up into space.
- Star
- A giant sun, far away in space, that twinkles in our night sky.
- Sun
- The closest star to the Earth. It gives our world light and warmth.
- Tide
- The gentle rise and fall of the sea, caused by the pull of the Moon.