As the last trivia of the school year, test your knowledge of space events that have happened in the last year. All the answers can be found in previous issues of Space Explorers' online newsletter, the Planetary Times.
1. Einstein's Theory of Relativity was confirmed with precision more than 50 times more accurate than previous measurements by which NASA spacecraft? Hubble Cassini Spirit Opportunity
2. Which planet came thousands of miles closer to Earth on August 27, 2003? Jupiter Pluto Saturn Mars
3. Which space agency launched a lunar probe in July 2003? Chinese Russian European NASA
4. Who was named as the 2003 Youth Spokesperson(s) for World Space Week? Bill Clinton N*SYNC singer Lance Bass Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson Bill Cosby
5. Which country became the third nation to launch a person into space? France Turkey India China
6. President Bush announced he would like to develop an outpost on what planet or moon? Mars Jupiter Earth's moon Mars' moon, Phobos
7. The Hubble Telescope discovered which new planetoid in our solar system? Sedna Yang Charon Kuiper
8. What did the NASA twin rovers discover was at some point present on the surface of Mars? Barium Water Lead Salt
9. What absorbs sunlight in Saturn's atmosphere? Oxygen Helium Carbon Methane
10. What are the names of the two rovers that landed on Mars in January 2004? Getz and Gilberto Rosetta and Philoe Spirit and Opportunity Brunsell and Marcks
