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