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World's largest solar telescope to be set up in Ladakh
Sunday January 08, 2012 12:17:06 AM,
IANS
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Jammu: The Jammu and
Kashmir government has assured all help and co-operation to the
union Department of Science and Technology in its endeavour to set
up a solar telescope, said to be the world's largest, at Merak on
Pangong Tso lake in the cold desert Ladakh region.
The official statement quoting Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary
Madhav Lal said: "The state government will extend full
cooperation to the Department of Science and Technology of
Government of India (GOI). The facility will also provide
employment opportunities to the local population in the area."
Chairing a meeting here to discuss the modalities for setting up
the National Large Solar Telescope (NLST), the chief secretary
called for following strategies to ensure that the "construction,
as well as operational phases of the project can be undertaken
with minimal disturbance to the local flora and fauna".
Professor Tushar P. Prabhu from the Indian Institute of
Astrophysics of the Department of Science and Technology, said the
site was selected after carefully studying various scientific and
environmental aspects. It emerged from the studies that Pangong
Tso lake site at Merak was "very promising and offered longer
sunshine hours".
He said, "The site, selected for setting up the of world's largest
solar telescope fitted with a 2m reflector will permit scientists
to carry out cutting edge research to understand the fundamental
processes taking place on the sun."
The solar telescope will help the scientific community to study
the long-term changes in the earth's climate and environment and
also provide useful data to carry out research in order to
minimize or remove disruptions to communications network and
satellites due to periodic solar winds.
Pangong Tso lake is situated at a height of 14,270 feet above sea
level. It is 134 km long and five km wide at the broadest point.
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