Which engineer conceptualized the Grand Tour mission that led to Voyager?
Answer
Gary Flandro
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the Voyager program originally called?
Answer
Mariner Jupiter-Saturn
Whose brainwaves were recorded for the Voyager Golden Record?
Answer
Ann Druyan
What Latin phrase was sent in Morse code on the Golden Record?
Answer
Per aspera ad astra
Which British engineer linked fossil-fuel CO2 to warming in a 1938 paper?
Answer
Guy Stewart Callendar
Which unit is used for radiative forcing in climate science?
Answer
Watts per square metre
Which law says a black body's emitted power is proportional to temperature to the fourth power?
Answer
Stefan-Boltzmann law
What is the 8-14 micrometre infrared band of high atmospheric transmission called?
Answer
atmospheric window
What ISS rack facility supports Earth imaging through Destiny's science window?
Answer
Window Observational Research Facility
Which Russian spacecraft carried the Prichal module to the ISS?
Answer
Progress M-UM
What is the first commercially funded airlock module installed on the ISS?
Answer
Bishop Airlock
Which process can power black hole jets by extracting rotational energy through magnetic fields?
Answer
Blandford-Znajek process
Which French scientist independently suggested dark stars in 1796?
Answer
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Which solution describes a charged, non-rotating black hole?
Answer
Reissner-Nordström metric
What is the outer boundary of a rotating black hole's ergosphere called?
Answer
Static limit
Which JWST mirror wing was latched into place to complete the telescope's major deployment on January 8, 2022?
Answer
Starboard primary mirror wing
About how long after liftoff did JWST separate from Ariane 5?
Answer
27 minutes
Which company built JWST's FGS/NIRISS instrument?
Answer
Honeywell
Who is the principal investigator for JWST's NIRCam instrument?
Answer
Marcia Rieke
To what accuracy can JWST's mirror actuators position the mirror?
Answer
10 nanometers
What is JWST's sunshield SPF compared with suntan lotion?
Answer
1,000,000
Which constellation contains the Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33?
Answer
Triangulum
Which constellation contains the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis?
Answer
Corona Borealis
Which constellation has the official IAU abbreviation And?
Answer
Andromeda
What sample depot did Perseverance complete on Mars in January 2023?
Answer
Three Forks Sample Depot
What was the first rock analyzed by NASA's Sojourner rover on Mars?
Answer
Barnacle Bill
Which instrument on Sojourner analyzed the composition of Martian rocks?
Answer
Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer
What is the name of Perseverance's Earth-based test twin?
Answer
OPTIMISM
Which student won the contest to name the Spirit and Opportunity rovers?
Answer
Sofi Collis