March 2024 Current Affairs MCQs & Solutions

Explanation: Google released the first models in its Gemini 2.0 experimental series in December 2024, positioning them as models designed for the 'agentic era' with enhanced capabilities for taking actions and executing multi-step plans.

Explanation: Genie 2 is a foundation world model introduced by Google in 2024. It is capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments, useful for training embodied AI agents.

Explanation: Google highlighted its 'AlphaChip' method in 2024, which uses reinforcement learning to accelerate and optimize the floorplanning process for computer chips, improving design efficiency.

Explanation: Sora is a text-to-video AI model released by OpenAI in December 2024 (publicly demoed earlier in the year) that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.

Explanation: Meta Platforms released the Llama series of models (including Llama 3 in 2024), which became a standard for open-source large language models in the AI community.

Explanation: During the fifth flight test, SpaceX successfully caught the Super Heavy booster using the 'Mechazilla' launch tower arms, a historic feat for reusable rocket technology.

Explanation: The Athena lander touched down but ended up on its side (similar to IM-1), which limited its solar power generation and led to an early end of the mission.

Explanation: The Q1 data release from Euclid revealed approximately 500 new strong gravitational lens candidates, significantly increasing the known number of such objects.

Explanation: Starlab Space LLC successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with NASA in March 2025, signaling its design was technically sound to proceed to full development.

Explanation: Proba-3 is an ESA mission launched by ISRO to demonstrate precise formation flying, where two satellites fly in tandem to form an artificial solar eclipse (coronagraph).

Explanation: NASA's Europa Clipper, launched in October 2024, executed a Mars gravity assist flyby in March 2025 to gain the necessary speed to reach Jupiter.

Explanation: Due to issues with the H3 launch vehicle, JAXA postponed the MMX mission launch from 2024 to the next available Mars window in 2026.

Explanation: The Hera spacecraft, launched in Oct 2024, performed a gravity assist flyby of Mars in March 2025 to set it on course for its 2026 rendezvous with the binary asteroid Didymos.

Explanation: One of the key images in the Euclid Q1 release was a stunning, deep view of the Fornax Cluster, revealing thousands of galaxies in high detail.

Explanation: SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is the ISRO mission designed to demonstrate autonomous rendezvous and docking between two spacecraft.

Explanation: Wait, the snippet says 'End of mission... March 7'. Landed March 6. It operated for a very short time on the surface due to the sideways landing. Actually, the snippet says mission duration 8 days total (launch to end). On the surface, it was only about 1 day of partial ops. Let's correct the question to avoid ambiguity.
*Correction:* 'Athena' ceased operations shortly after landing. How long after landing did it lose power?
*Answer:* About 1 day (Landed March 6, End March 7). The total mission was 8 days.

Explanation: The Euclid space telescope released its Q1 data in March 2025, which included a detailed catalogue of 380,000 galaxies classified with the help of AI.

Explanation: GSAT-N2 was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in late 2024 to provide high-throughput communication services for India.

Explanation: China's permanently crewed space station is named Tiangong ('Heavenly Palace').

Explanation: XPoSat (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) is India's first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources.