36. The Mars rovers (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity) are examples of which kind

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36. The Mars rovers (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity) are examples of which kind of

spacecraft?

A) flybys

B) sample return

C) landers

D) orbiters

E) antimatter engines

37. Stardust is an example of which kind of mission?

A) lander

B) flyby

C) sample return

D) orbiter

E) antimatter engines

38. The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the surface of Mars

using

A) airbags

B) balloons

C) rockets

D) teleportation beams

E) antimatter engines

39. The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, landed on the surface of Mars using

A) balloons

B) rockets

C) teleportation beams

D) antimatter engines

E) sky crane

40. The first person to claim to see linear features on the surface of Mars was

A) Angelo Secchi

B) Percival Lowell

C) William Herschel

D) Kepler

E) Giovanni Schiaparelli

41. Other astronomers were skeptical about Percival Lowell’s claims of Martian canals

because

A) it did not seem possible for his telescope to see the surface through its thick

atmosphere

B) when they pointed their own telescopes toward Mars they couldn’t see them

C) they discovered that Lowell suffered from poor vision

D) they were able to prove that Lowell’s telescope was faulty

E) they didn’t like him

Explanation / Answer

36)Landers

37)Sample return

39)sky crane

40)Percival Lowell

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