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