Breadcrumb
- Home
- Labs
- Observational Labs
- The Moon and Telescopes II
- Pre-Lab Quiz: Moon and Telescopes 2
Pre-Lab Quiz: Moon and Telescopes 2
- When was the telescope invented?
- the 1950s
- the early 17th century
- roughly the same time the pyramids were built
- 1492
- Which of these did Galileo NOT discover?
- Four of Jupiter's Moons
- Sunspots
- Craters on the Moon
- Pluto
- What is the main reason for putting telescopes in space?
- It gets them above the atmosphere.
- It's cheaper than building them on the ground.
- It allows observations to be carried out at distances closer to the objects studied.
- They last longer in space than on the ground.
- What is the largest single telescope on or in orbit around Earth?
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- The FAST radio telescope in China
- The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile
- The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico