What type of onboard recorder stores high-rate Voyager plasma wave data?
Answer
digital tape recorder
96213 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96213 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What stabilization method is used by the identical Voyager spacecraft?
Answer
three-axis stabilization
On what date did Voyager 2 enter the interstellar medium?
Answer
November 5, 2018
About how far from Earth was Voyager 1 when it took the Pale Blue Dot image?
Answer
6 billion kilometers
Who advocated taking Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot photograph?
Answer
Carl Sagan
Which launch vehicle sent Voyager 1 into space?
Answer
Titan IIIE
Which major storm did Voyager 2 discover on Neptune?
Answer
Great Dark Spot
What boundary did the Voyager Interstellar Mission aim to reach?
Answer
Heliopause
What shape is the main equipment bus of each Voyager spacecraft?
Answer
Decagonal prism
Which Italian scientist is credited with discovering methane in 1776?
Answer
Alessandro Volta
Which scientific law relates blackbody radiation wavelength to temperature?
Answer
Wien's displacement law
Which scientist is the namesake of the Keeling Curve?
Answer
Charles David Keeling
What unit is commonly used for atmospheric CO2 concentration in the Keeling Curve?
Answer
Parts per million
What term describes heat-trapping gases such as methane, CO2, and water vapor?
Answer
Greenhouse gas
Which Swedish scientist calculated that doubling CO2 could raise Earth’s temperature?
Answer
Svante Arrhenius
Which potent greenhouse gas is used to insulate some electrical switchgear?
Answer
sulfur hexafluoride
What atmospheric process widens gas absorption lines under higher pressure?
Answer
pressure broadening
Earth's surface emits most of its thermal energy as what kind of radiation?
Answer
longwave radiation
Which French physicist strengthened Fourier's greenhouse-effect argument in 1827 and 1838?
Answer
Claude Pouillet
Which American scientist showed in 1856 that carbon dioxide warmed more in sunlight?
Answer
Eunice Newton Foote
Which positive feedback occurs when warming increases atmospheric water vapor?
Answer
water vapor feedback
What metric compares a greenhouse gas's warming effect with carbon dioxide?
Answer
global warming potential
Which Space Shuttle mission launched Canadarm2 to the ISS?
Answer
STS-100
What is Canadarm2's official name?
Answer
Space Station Remote Manipulator System
Which module did the Bishop Airlock attach to on the ISS?
Answer
Tranquility
Which ISS expedition first operated with a six-person crew?
Answer
Expedition 20
Which SpaceX cargo mission delivered BEAM to the ISS?
Answer
SpaceX CRS-8
What was the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle sent to the ISS?
Answer
Jules Verne ATV
In what month and year was the ISS Intergovernmental Agreement signed?
Answer
January 1998
What treaty is the main legal framework for ISS partner nations?
Answer
Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement
Which rocket launched the Zarya and Zvezda ISS modules?
Answer
Proton-K
Which 1939 model describes collapse of a uniform dust sphere into a black hole?
Answer
Oppenheimer-Snyder model
On what date was the GW150914 black-hole merger signal detected?
Answer
September 14, 2015