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| people explore space with what three things? |
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| visible light, radio waves, rockets |
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| people explore space with visible light using what two things? |
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| reflecting telescopes and refracting telescopes |
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| people explore space with radio waves using what? |
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| people explore space with rockets using what? |
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| satellites, space shuttles, and space probes |
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| a refracting telescope is a type of what telescope? |
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| radio waves and gamma rays are two types of what (waves)? |
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| sound waves are an example of what? |
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| what usues mirrors to focues light from the object being viewed? |
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| because radio waves can pass freely though Eath;s atmosphere what are most useful under most weather conditions? |
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| what is a motor that burns fuel without air? |
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| in what does light pass through a double convex lens and is bent to form an image on the focal plane? |
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| to hear astronauts in space, the sound eaves are converted to what and then back to sound waves? |
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| all electromagnetic waves travel at the same what? |
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| what travels at 300,000 km/s in a vacumm? |
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| in a radio telescope radio waves strike a large curved what? |
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| today the largest optical telesecope has four 8.2 meter whats? |
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| because the Hubble Space Telescope uses mirrors, what type of optical telescope is it? |
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| optical telescopes allow scientists to study what from objects in space? |
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| at the end of the reflecting telescope is a what type of mirror? |
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| most optical telescopes used by professional astromnomers are in whats? |
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| what is the arrangement of the forms of electromagnetic radiation according to their wavelengths |
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| what views stars from orbit? |
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| the hubble space telescope |
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| earths what makes it difficult for astronomers to niew the universe cleary from the surface? |
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| the moon is the earth's natural what? |
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| who was the first person to set foot on the moon? |
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| the path of one object circling another is a what? |
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| what was the program that first sent people to the moon? |
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| what probes flew past jupiter and other planets before heading outtward toward deep space? |
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| who was the first american citizen of the us to orbit earth? |
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| in what did a team of american astronauts first meet and connect with a spacecraft in orbit? |
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| what travels far into space collecting info and returning it to earth? |
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| galileo dropped a smaller probe into jupiters what? |
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| cooperative missions between countries have been planned to send spacecrafts to where? |
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| what was launched in 1990 and provided into about jupiter? |
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| space exploration began when soviets launched what? (this was the first artificial satellite) |
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| this is the simplest engine thats made of a burning chamber and a nozzle. |
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| weather satellites provide info about the global weather systems on what? |
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| what prject began the us' effort to reach the moon? |
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