Quiz 31

A reusable spacecraft that launches with the aid of rocket boosters and liquid fuel.

• Space shuttle
• Probe
• Orbiter
• Lander

An uncrewed vehicle that carries scientific instruments to distant objects in space.

• Space shuttle
• Probe
• Orbiter
• Lander

An uncrewed spacecraft that is designed to enter into orbit around another object in space.

• Space shuttle
• Probe
• Orbiter
• Lander

A craft designed to land on the surface of a body in space.

• Space shuttle
• Probe
• Orbiter
• Lander

A small vehicle that comes out of a lander and explores the surface of a planet or moon beyond the landing site.

• Rover
• Artificial Satelite
• Adaptive Optics
• Universe

any human-made object placed in orbit around a body in space.

• Rover
• Artificial Satelite
• Adaptive Optics
• Universe

A technique in which telescope mirrors flex rapidly to compensate for bending of starlight caused by atmospheric turbulence.

• Rover
• Artificial Satelite
• Adaptive Optics
• Universe

Space and all matter and energy in it.

• Rover
• Artificial Satelite
• Adaptive Optics
• Universe

A shift in the lines of an object's spectrum toward the red end. Redshift indicates that an object is moving away from the observer. The larger the redshift, the faster the object is moving.

• Rover
• Redshift
• Blueshift
• Universe

A Doppler shift in which spectral features are shifted to shorter wavelengths, observed when an object is moving toward the observer. The larger the shift, the faster the object is moving.

• Rover
• Redshift
• Blueshift
• Universe