Electromagnetic Waves
The entire range of radiant energy carried by electromagnetic waves.
What is electromagnetic spectrum?
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A telescope that uses a convex lens to concentrate light from a distant object.
What is refracting telescope?
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Any small object that orbit a larger object.
What is Satellite?
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The inner planet are the four rocky planets closest to the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
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Life that originates outside of Earth.
What is extraterrestrial life?
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Includes all the colors you see.
What is Visible light?
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A telescope that uses a curved mirror to concentrate light from a distant object.
What is reflecting telescope?
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The first artificial Earth orbiting satellite.
What is Sputnik 1?
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The outer planets are the four largest planets farthest from the Sun.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
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The study of life in the universe, including life on Earth and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
What is Astrobiology?
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The energy emitted from the energy source.
What is Wavelength?
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A telescope that collects radio waves and some microwaves using a antenna that looks like a TV satellite dish.
What is radio telescope?
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An array of satellites called the (blank) is used for navigation in cars, boats, airplanes, and even for hiking.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
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The first probe to be on Mercury.
What is Messenger?
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Three things that all life needs to survive.
What is liquid water, organic molecules and some source of energy to survive?
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A wavelength that has the size of 10^-6 nm (nanometer).
What is Gamma Rays?
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(blank) in Earth's atmosphere can absorb and distort radio waves.
What is moisture?
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(blank) are robots that work automatically or by remote control.
What is space probe?
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A round body that orbits the Sun but is not massive enough to clear away other objects in its orbit.
What is Dwarf planet?
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Water can be found on (blank), which is one of Jupiter's many moons.
What is Europa?
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It takes (blank) long for the light from the sun to reach Jupiter.
What is 40 min?
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The first optical space telescope that was launched in 1990.
What is Hubble Space Telescope?
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Once (blank) reach their destinations, they use rockets to slow down enough to be captured in a planet's orbit.
What is a Orbiters?
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After a 9 year journey from Earth, (blank) arrived at Pluto in 2015.
What is The New Horizons spacecraft?
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From Greek words Astrobiology means.
What is a star, life, study?