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Represents the shortest and longest periods of daylight.
What is solstice?
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Space shuttle and Space station and space probe
What are the the three types of spacecrafts?
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The two main types of telescopes are optical telescopes and Hubble space telescope.
What are the two main types of telescopes?
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Space junk is all the pieces of debris that have fallen off rockets, satellites, space shuttle and space stations.
What is space junk.
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A meteoroid is an elements that has both metallic and non-metallic electricity.
What is a meteoroid?
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Exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no light escapes.
What is a black hole?
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The first step is figuring out a way to get off the planet.
What is the first step in space exploration?
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No radio waves are not affected by weather.
Are radio waves affected by weather?
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Yes sending humans into space is dangerous.
Is sending humans into space dangerous?
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A space probe is a unmanned satellite or remote controlled landers used to explore areas or objects in space that are too difficult or dangerous to send humans to.
What is a space probe?
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It is made of dust and ice.
What is a comet made of?
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microgravity is the condition in which the gravitational forces that act on mass are greatly reduced.
What is microgravity?
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Triangulation is based on the geometry of a triangle.
What is triangulation based on?
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The Canadian developed a Canadian arm that is robotic.
What did the Canadian develop that is a robotic thing?
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Electromagnetic spectrum is the complete range of wavelengths over which electromagnetic energy extends
What is electromagnetic spectrum?
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The earth passes between the sun and the moon.
What is lunar eclipse?
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The four things satellites are used for are communicating satellites, and satellites for observation and research ,and remote sensing ,and satellites as personal tracking devices.
What is the four different things that satellite are used for?
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Two ways measuring distances indirectly, on the ground or in space are triangulation and parallax.
What are two ways of measuring distances indirectly, on the ground or in space?
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The space program costs billions of dollars every year.
How much does the space program cost every year?
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A robotic manipulation system designed for use in zero gravity.
What is a Canada arm?
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It is the degrees of clockwise from north.
What is azimuth?
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Ion drives are engines that use xenon gas instead of chemical fuels.
What is a ion drives?
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Gamma rays have high frequency.
Does gamma rays have high or low frequency?
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There have be 4000 missions sent into space.
Since 1957, how many missions have be sent into space?
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
What is a global positioning system?