Atacama Desert Star Gazing
- 1. Which country is the Atacama Desert located in?
A) Peru
B) Chile
C) Argentina
D) Brazil
- 2. What is the name of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) research facility in the Atacama Desert?
A) Andes Observatory
B) Desert Star Observatory
C) Pampas Observatory
D) Paranal 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) Hubble Space Telescope
B) James Webb Space Telescope
C) Chandra X-ray Observatory
D) Kepler 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) Bonneville Salt Flats
B) Uyuni Salt Flat
C) Salar de Atacama
D) Death Valley
- 6. Which famous constellation is prominently visible in the southern hemisphere and can be seen well from the Atacama Desert?
A) Orion
B) Southern Cross
C) Ursa Major
D) Pleiades
- 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) Sahara Desert
D) Mojave 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) Saturn
D) Neptune
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