Which is NOT an advantage of manned space missions over unmanned missions?
- Humans require extensive and expensive training for space work
- Humans can carry out difficult conditions and movements that no robot would be capable of
- Humans do not need programming and can be flexible and intelligent to carry out different tasks
Which is NOT an advantage of unmanned space missions over manned missions?
- They can go further away from Earth and can travel for longer periods
- They do not need extra room for life support
- They do not need lengthy programming
What is an advantage of an orbiting space probe?
- Can observe and map the entire body
- Can disturb materials allowing us to find what it is composed of
- Can study the immediate environment and take precise surface readings and conduct basic experiments
- An array of sensors can measure many features send images in detail
What is an advantage of an flyby space probe?
- Can observe and map the entire body
- Can disturb materials allowing us to find what it is composed of
- Can study the immediate environment and take precise surface readings and conduct basic experiments
- An array of sensors can measure many features send images in detail
What is an advantage of a landing space probe?
- Can observe and map the entire body
- Can disturb materials allowing us to find what it is composed of
- Can study the immediate environment and take precise surface readings and conduct basic experiments
- An array of sensors can measure many features send images in detail
What is an advantage of an impacting space probe?
- Can observe and map the entire body
- Can disturb materials allowing us to find what it is composed of
- Can study the immediate environment and take precise surface readings and conduct basic experiments
- An array of sensors can measure many features send images in detail
Landers have visited other planets. moons, comets and asteroids. What are some of the risks involved?
- Mechanical failure to open parachutes.
- Landing in a badly placed area.
- Failure to deorbit or miss the body
Orbiters visiting cloudy bodies such as Venus or Titan use this technology to map the surface
- Spectrometers
- Lasers
- Radar
In order to reach space orbit a rocket must first reach..?
- Earth Velocity
- Escape Velocity
- Hubble Velocity
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEPS) used on the Moon measure which of these (select all that apply)
- Retroflectors to measure the distance to the Moon
- Seismographs to measure moonquakes
- Sensors to measure solar radiation
