MISSIONS QUIZ
(Hint: look at the missions table of our web site)
1. The purpose of this mission is to extend the
exploration of the solar system beyond the outer planets and outer limits of the
Sun's sphere of influence and points beyond.
A. VOYAGER 2 B. WIND
C. CASSINI D. POLAR
2. This mission explored the asteroid Eros,
starting January 10, 1999.
A. VESPER B. NEAR
C. ULYSSES D. WIND
3. This mission was designed to study the
GLOBAL response of the Earth's magnetosphere to the solar wind.
A. VOYAGER 2 B. SWAS
C. CASSINI D. IMAGE
4. One of a series of spacecraft, this mission
studies the solar wind and the boundaries and magnetotail of the Earth's
magnetosphere.
A. ULYSSES B. SAMPEX
C. IMP 8 D. SOUNDING ROCKETS
5. The purpose of this mission was to
investigate the solar magnetic field, solar wind plasma at high solar
latitudes, and the galactic COSMIC rays coming from the sun.
A. VESPER B. NEAR
C. ULYSSES D. WIND
6. This mission's purpose is to determine the
magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the upstream region and to
investigate basic plasma processes occurring in the near Earth solar wind.
A. VESPER B. NEAR
C. WIND D. VOYAGER 2
7. To explore similarities between the Venus
and Earth middle atmospheres and test new chemical models arising from this
investigation will be the mission of this spacecraft.
A. ULYSSES B. AMPTE
C. GEOTAIL D. VESPER
8. This was also a mission to extend the
exploration of the solar system beyond the outer planets and outer limits of
the Sun's sphere of influence and points beyond.
A. ULYSSES B. SAMPEX
C. IMP 8 D. VOYAGER 1
9. This mission is determining and comparing
the isotopic and elemental composition of several distinct samples of matter,
including the solar corona, the interplanetary medium, the local interstellar
medium, and galactic matter.
A. ACE B. VESPER
C. ULYSSES D. IMP 8
10. The orbiter of this exciting mission will
carry 2 main science instruments, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)
and the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) on a trip to another of our solar system's
planets.
A. SAMPEX B. MARS SURVEYOR
2001 C. NEAR D. SWAS
11. This "mission" is to explore the
Sun-Earth connection during Solar Maximum 23, an event taking place even now.
A. CLARK B. ISTP
C. Voyager 1 D. FAST
12. The mission statement for this spacecraft
is to study the sources, transport, and acceleration of energetic
magnetospheric ions, the interaction between clouds of cool, dense
artificially-injected plasma, and the hot, magnetized, rapidly-flowing natural
plasmas of the magnetosphere and solar wind.
A. WIND B. ULYSSES
C. AMPTE D. NEAR
13. This mission has one purpose: to study the
structure and dynamics of the tail region of the magnetosphere.
A. CLARK B. GEOTAIL
C. VESPER D. ACE
14. One of the purposes of this mission is to
determine characteristics of the auroral plasma acceleration outflow.
A. NEAR B. POLAR
C. MARS SURVEYOR 2001 D. WIND
15. Similar to number 14, this mission studies
the detailed plasma physics of the Earth's auroral regions.
A. WIND B. ULYSSES
C. FAST D. CLARK
16. This long-standing, on-going
"mission" uses sub-orbital trajectories with typical apogees ranging
between 100 and 1500 km.
A. SAMPEX B. SOUNDING
ROCKETS C. NEAR D. SWAS
17. Another planetary mission, this spacecraft
will determine the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the
rings of Saturn and will study the behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud
level.
A. ULYSSES B. FAST
C. POLAR D. CASSINI
18. An earlier mission, in low-altitude,
near-polar, Sun-synchronous orbit around the planet Mars, this spacecraft
studied the surface, atmosphere and gravitational and magnetic fields of Mars.
A. MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR B.
GEOTAIL C. VESPER D. ACE
19. This mission was selected in the NASA SSTI
(Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative) program, along with Lewis Space
Research Center, to demonstrate advanced spacecraft technologies and has one
main purpose: to do high energy photon research.
A. AMPTE B. CLARK
C. IMP 8 D. ISTP
20. The purpose of this mission was to study
the ionization state and isotopic composition of the anomalous component of
cosmic rays, and observe precipitating magnetospheric electrons that interact
with the middle atmosphere.
A. ULYSSES B. SAMPEX
C. IMP 8 D. SOUNDING ROCKETS
