Mars Rovers

Rover: a planetary surface exploration device designed to move across the __________ surface on a planet.

• gaseous

• liquid

• solid

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Rovers are typically created to land on another planet (other than Earth) via a __________-style spacecraft.

• orbiter

• swimmer

• lander

• rocket

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Rovers are designed to collect information about the ___________, and to take crust samples such as dust, soil, rocks, and even liquids.

• terrain

• chemicals

• aerosols

• sky

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Rovers have to withstand high levels of acceleration, high and low _____________, pressure, dust, corrosion, cosmic rays, remaining functional without repair for a needed period of time.

• altitude

• vegetation

• sound

• temperature

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Rovers cannot be ____________ controlled in real-time since the speed at which radio signals travel is far too slow for real-time or near-real-time communication.

• specially

• remotely

• personally

• automatically

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

These rovers are thus capable of operating autonomously with little assistance from ground control as far as ______________ and data acquisition are concerned,

• signal

• composotion

• navigation

• adherence

Although they still require ____________ input for identifying promising targets in the distance to which to drive, and determining how to position itself to maximize solar energy.

• computer

• robot

• data

• human

The Mars Pathfinder mission included Sojourner, the first rover to successfully deploy on another _____________.

• Moon

• Comet

• planet

• asteroid

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

From its landing until the final data transmission on 27 September 1997, Mars _______________ returned 16,500 images from the lander and 550 images from Sojourner and extensive data on winds and other weather factors.

• Pathfinder

• Spirit

• Curiosity

• Opportunity

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars ___________, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.

• landers

• orbitters

• satellite

• rovers