- 1. Which country is the Atacama Desert located in?
A) Peru
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Chile
- 2. What is the name of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) research facility in the Atacama Desert?
A) Paranal Observatory
B) Andes Observatory
C) Desert Star Observatory
D) Pampas Observatory
- 3. Which celestial body can be seen exceptionally well from the Atacama Desert?
A) Mars
B) Milky Way
C) Saturn
D) Venus
- 4. Which famous space telescope discovered many exoplanets and made groundbreaking astronomical observations from space?
A) Kepler Space Telescope
B) Chandra X-ray Observatory
C) Hubble Space Telescope
D) James Webb Space Telescope
- 5. Which famous constellation is prominently visible in the southern hemisphere and can be seen well from the Atacama Desert?
A) Southern Cross
B) Pleiades
C) Ursa Major
D) Orion
- 6. What is the name of the large salt flat in the Atacama Desert, known for its resemblance to an otherworldly landscape?
A) Death Valley
B) Bonneville Salt Flats
C) Salar de Atacama
D) Uyuni Salt Flat
- 7. What is the name of the large, radio-quiet area in the Atacama Desert used for astronomical observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths?
A) Mojave Desert
B) Gobi Desert
C) Chajnantor Plateau
D) Sahara Desert
- 8. Which gas giant planet in our solar system can be a prominent feature in the night sky when visible from the Atacama Desert?
A) Uranus
B) Neptune
C) Jupiter
D) Saturn
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