"No Millennial Will Recognise This Pic," Says Anand Mahindra. Can You?

The image shows an inverted aluminium sphere tied to four whip-like antennas which appear to hold the object suspended

Industrialist Anand Mahindra, who is known for his engaging posts, has shared a new picture on his Twitter account and asked his 8.4 million followers to identify it, saying no millennial will recognise the image right away but every millennial will recognise its name today. What is this “thing” that millennials would know by name but not its image? The photo shared by Mr Mahindra shows an inverted aluminium sphere tied to four whip-like antennas which appear to hold the object suspended. What is this ‘thing'?—Whose picture no millennial will recognise right away—Whose name every millennial will recognise today pic.twitter.com/CCCdD36wY8 https://t.co/vOr0V6uxRxpic.twitter.com/pwogxHAj1L pic.twitter.com/ayHKuzRhDU Something that stole the millions of years of monopoly of the Moon. pic.twitter.com/n0h4qoNJPk Accept the 66-year-old Mahindra Group chairman's challenge and figure the image out: Since being posted on Thursday evening, the image has attracted comments from a number of people, many of whom identified the object as Sputnik 1 satellite launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, as the Earth's first artificial satellite. Now, Russia has developed a vaccine against COVID-19 that is named Sputnik V.