Technology to Study the Solar System

Which type of apparatus do scientists use to collect visible light

and separate it into bands of color seen in the image?

• Space Probe

• Seismograph

• Spectroscope

• Telescope

The first major optical space telescope to be put into space was

the

• Hubble Telescope

• Voyager

• James Webb Space Telescope

• Mir

A small robotic space probe that can move about on the surface of a planet or moon is

• Apollo

• Rover

• Orbiter

• Space Station

A Telescope that uses a set of lenses to gather and focus light from distant objects is called a

• Reflecting telescope

• Spectroscope

• Refracting Telescope

• Optical Looking Device

A telescope that uses a curved mirror to gather and focus light

from distant objects is called a ____________.

• Reflecting Telescope

• Spectroscope

• Refracting Telescope

• Optical Looking Device

Unmanned space vehicles that take instruments into space to

collect data are called

• Rover

• Lander

• Shuttle

• Space Probe

Astronomers use this instrument to collect incoming

wavelengths. What is the instrument used?

• Radio telescope

• Orbiting Satellite

• Solar Collector

• Space Probe