* Astronomy

Do you know how the Statue junction here looks like when viewed from space? Not many would know.
But the students of the SMV Higher Secondary School saw this and more, thanks to an exhibition on remote sensing and GIS organised there by the Department of Geology, University of Kerala.
As eager students gathered around satellite photos of Padmanabhaswamy temple, Technopark campus, PMG junction and the citys airport complex, researchers explained to them the scope of remote sensing and the technology that brought to them those photographs.

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