Space Trivia
2024
September 27
August 16
June 27
June 7, 2024
June 1, 2024
JPL was founded in 1936 on which cultural holiday?
A) Valentine’s Day
B) St. Patrick’s Day
C) Cinco de Mayo
D) Halloween
May 25, 2024
May 1, 2024
April 26
NASA’s Voyager 1 mission is the first to do all of the following, except:
A) Cross the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun
B) Venture into interstellar space
C) Visit Pluto
D) Image active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io
April 4
March 29
In addition to 2.6 million names, a poem written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, and an etching of the Drake Equation, a commemorative plate mounted on Europa Clipper will also carry what?
A) Recordings of the word "water" in 103 languages
B) Artwork of radio frequencies for interstellar communication
C) A portrait of Ron Greeley, a founder of planetary science
D) All of the above
March 22
March 8
February 23
February 16
As of February 16, 2024, how many Mars rock samples has NASA’s Perseverance rover collected?
A) 8
B) 13
C) 18
D) 23
February 8
On Oct. 12, 1994, Magellan became the first spacecraft to do what?
A) Intentionally crash into a planet
B) Orbit Venus 200 times
C) Map Venus' infrared emissions
D) Capture images of volcanoes on another planet
January 26
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment recently beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec. 11 from a record-setting 19 million miles away. The star of the video was:
A) A jar of lucky JPL peanuts
B) A chihuahua named Mr. Dee Sock
C) A dancing JPL deer
D) A cat named Taters
2023
December 29
December 22
NASA’s EMIT mission, flying aboard the International Space Station, recently produced the first global maps in arid regions of what?
A) Pollen concentrations
B) Underground water supplies
C) Surface minerals
D) Camel populations
December 8
December 1
November 17
November 10
November 2
October 19
October 13
Which planet’s gravity will assist NASA’s Psyche mission in its trajectory toward a rendezvous with an asteroid?
A) Venus
B) Mars
C) Jupiter
D) Saturn
October 5
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will work to help researchers understand the nature of what on the Moon's surface?
A) Water
B) Gravity
C) Air
D) Sunlight
September 29
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter is preparing for its 61st powered flight on the Red Planet. Since reaching Mars, how much time has Ingenuity spent in flight?
A) 15 minutes
B) 48 minutes
C) One hour and 48 minutes
D) Three hours and 26 minutes
September 15
September 7
August 10
August 1
July 13
July 1
June 9, 2023
This week, observations by NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope gave astronomers new clues about the brightest and most energetic gamma-ray burst ever detected. Gamma ray bursts occur when:
A. A pair of black holes collide
B. The core of a massive star collapses
C. A planet falls into a massive star
D. A planet is vaporized by a super-laser from the Death Star
May 26, 2023
What is the most volcanically active body in the solar system?
A. Earth
B. Venus
C. Jupiter's moon Io
D. Saturn's moon Enceladus