VENUS and JUPITER
how many moons/rings does Venus have?
a) 3
b) 5
c) none
c) none
Venus does not have any moons or rings.
The footprints on the Moon will be there for
a) 100 million years.
b) 10 milion years.
c) 150 milion years.
a) 100 million years.
this space craft was the first to land on a comet
a) Rosetta
b) Voyager 2
c) Hubble
a) Rosetta
this is the theory that describes how the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang
a) String theory
b) Big Bang theory
c) Dark matter theory
b) Big Bang theory
There may be a planet made out of
a) silver.
b) gold.
c) diamonds.
c) diamonds
The surface temperature on Venus can reach:
a) 471 °C.
b) 447 °C.
c) 423 °C.
a) 471 °C.
The Moon was once
a) red colored and then changed its color to gray
b) a piece of the Earth
c) not the moon of our planet the Earth
b) a piece of the Earth
this was the name of the first spacecraft to land on Mars
a) Curiosity
b) Viking 1
c) Perseverance
b) Viking 1
Thus phenomenon is believed to make up about 27 % of the universes mass energy content
a) Dark energy
b) Dark matter)
c) Neutrinos
b) Dark matter
If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space they will
a) explode
b) stay together forever
c) bump into each other and create visual reaction
b) stay together forever (permanently bond)
At one point it was thought Venus might be a
a) oaze of the space.
b) tropical paradise.
c) volcano of the space
b) tropical paradise.
this is the largets moon of Saturn
a) Europa
b) Io
c) Ganymede
b) Io
this missions goal was to study the outer solar system and its planets
a) Mars Rover
b) Voyager 2
c) Cassini
b) Voyager 2
this is the term of the invisible boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape
a) Event horizon
b) Accretion disk
c) Singularity
a) Event horizon
this type of telescope is used to observe distant galaxies, stars and planets using infrared light
a) Hubble Space Telescope
b) James Webb Space Telescope
c) Spitzer Space Telescope
b) James Webb Space Telescope
Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets and its:
a) 9 hours and 55 minutes
b) 7 hours and 47 minutes
c) 12 hours and 38 minutes
a) 9 hours and 55 minutes
This moon of Neptune was discovered by accident by astronomer William Lassell in 1846
a) Triton
b) Charon
c) Callisto
a) Triton
This was the first human made object to leave our solar system
a) Apollo 11
b) Voyager 1
c) New Horizons
b) Voyager 1
this is the concept suggesting that black holes may connect to distant parts of the universe through tunnels in spacetime
a) Wormholes
b) White holes
c) Singularity
a) Wormholes
this rocket is currently the most powerful operational rocket in the world designed by SpaceX for interplanetary missions
a) Falcon Heavy
b) Saturn V
c) Space Shuttle
a) Falcon Heavy
The Great Red Spot is a ........... on Jupiter.
a) stormy cloud
b) huge storm
c) a failed star
b) huge storm
This moon of Jupiter is believed to have subsurface ocean that may be habitable
a) Europa
b) Ganymede
c) Callisto
a) Europa
this space station is currently the largest humand made structure in orbit
a) Mir
b) Skylab
c) International Space Station
c) International Space Station
this theory proposes that gravity is not force but a result of the curvature of spacetime caused by mass
a) Quantum mechanics
b) General relativity
c) Newtonian mechanics
b) General relativity
this mission was launched by the European Space Agency to explore the planet Mars and its moons in 2003
a) Mars Express
b) Mars Oddysey
c) InSight Mars 2003
a) Mars Express