NASA Missions, APOD Terminology, and Remote Sensing

This NASA space probe, launched in 2007, is exploring the protoplanets Ceres and Vesta in the asteroid belt.

• Juno
• Cassini
• Dawn
• Orion

This NASA mission explored the Saturnian system from 1997 until it's grand finale in 2017.

• Juno
• Cassini
• Dawn
• Orion

Currently under development, this NASA space craft will one day carry crew members to the Space Station, Mars, or even the asteroid belt. 

• Juno
• Cassini
• Dawn
• Orion

Launched in 2011, this NASA space probe is currently orbiting Jupiter exploring its magnetosphere, auroras, and atmosphere.

• Juno
• Cassini
• Dawn
• Orion

This mission, launched in 2011, successfully landed the Curiosity Rover on Mars' surface in 2012.

• Voyager
• New Horizons
• MSL
• James Webb

Since 1977, NASA has been gathering data about the outer planets, and even interstellar space, with this mission.

• Voyager
• New Horizons
• MSL
• James Webb

Launched in 2006, this space probe was designed to do a fly-by of Pluto and explore the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system.

• Voyager
• New Horizons
• MSL
• James Webb

This, the world's largest space telescope, will be launched in 2019 to look deep into space and discover the secrets of the universe's beginning.

• Voyager
• New Horizons
• MSL
• James Webb

The NISAR NASA mission has helped scientists understand more about our home planet's ever-changing Earth system components.

• True
• False

Mars 2020 is NASA's plan for the first manned mission to the red planet.

• True
• False