Eleven B.Sc. Mathematics students from Union Christian College, Meghalaya along with 2 faculty members visited NESAC on 8th April 2022 as an exposure visit for a day. The students’ visit was coordinated by Dr Rekha B Gogoi, Scientist-SE and Shri Abhishek Chhari, Scientist-SD. A presentation was given by Dr Aniket Chakravorty, Scientist-SD, which includes overview of Indian space programme, various activities of NESAC as well as other ISRO/DOS Centres and different uses of Mathematics in space technology. Later, the students were taken to the Space and Atmospheric Science lab, where Smt. Manasi Gogoi, SRF, NESAC provided detailed information about the working principles of different instruments used for understanding atmospheric processes prevalent over the region through observation. They were also taken to the UAV lab for technical demonstration by Shri Chirag Gupta, Scientist-SD.
