6.E.1.3 Space Exploration Vocabulary

Chandra X-Ray observatory

• a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges.

• is a NASA spacecraft. It is in space studying the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe.

• a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars

• is a sophisticated satellite observatory dedicated to observing the high-energy Universe.

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 is a sophisticated satellite observatory dedicated to observing the high-energy Universe.

• Chandra X-Ray observatory

• Compton Gamma Ray observatory

• Hubble Telescope

• Spitzer Space Telescope

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a rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.

• probe

• International Space Station

• space shuttle

• telescope

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Hubble Telescope

• a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges.

• is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live.

• is a NASA spacecraft. It is in space studying the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe.

• was designed to detect infrared radiation, which is primarily heat radiation.

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an unpiloted, unmanned device sent to explore space and gather scientific information.

• telescope

• probe

• International Space Station

• space shuttle

an instrument used to observe objects that are far away.

• microscope

• telescope

• probe

• rocket

Spitzer Space Telescope

• was designed to detect infrared radiation, which is primarily heat radiation.

• is a NASA spacecraft. It is in space studying the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe.

• is a sophisticated satellite observatory dedicated to observing the high-energy Universe.

• a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars

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is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live.

• Spitzer Space Telescope

• Fermi-Gamma Ray Telescope

• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

• International Space Station

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a space vehicle or missile, or the special engine that's meant to propel such a vehicle into the air.

• Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope

• Hubble Telescope

• probe

• rocket

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is a NASA spacecraft. It is in space studying the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe.

• Spitzer Space Telescope

• Chandra X-Ray observatory

• Fermi-Gamma-Ray Telescope

• Hubble Telescope

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