NASA Color Your Universe Review

Where is NASA Headquarters located?

• Florida

• Texas

• California

• Washington DC

What is a tool we can use to better see far off objects in space?

• telescope

• microscope

• gyroscope

• giant mirror

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How can we communicate with distant spacecraft?

• Very Big Walkie Talkies

• Cell Phones

• Deep Space Network

• We can't communicate with them yet/

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How many of these large satellite dishes make up the DSN?

• 1

• 3

• 26

• Too many to count.

What does NASA's JPL facility stand for?

• Juvenile Property Listings

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• July Planetary Line-up

• Jiggly Pickle Launch

One of JPL's creations is the Sentinel 6 - Michael Freilich. What has this been designed to measure?

• The height of the ocean.

• The distance from Pluto to Neptune.

• The distance from asteroids that get too close to Earth.

• How far Voyager-I is getting from Earth.

Which planet in our Solar System has the greatest "spot"?

• Mercury

• Earth

• Saturn

• Jupiter

Match the moons of Jupiter with a fact about each.

• Has its own magnetic field.

• Europa

• Most heavily cratered body in the Solar System.

• Ganymede

• Has a deep subsurface ocean.

• Io

• Most volcanic active body in the Solar System.

• Callisto

Juno is a spacecraft that was sent to explore Jupiter. How long did it take Juno to arrive at Jupiter after being launched?

• 2.3 years

• 4.9 years

• 12.6 years

• It hasn't arrived yet.

Which dwarf planet orbits inside of the asteroid belt?

• Pluto

• Haumea

• Makemake

• Ceres