Radiation/Airborne/Quiz

The SOFIA observatory is flying with 100% open telescope door. Credit: NASA.

Airborne astronomy is a lecture of the radiation astronomy department that may be included in courses like principles of radiation astronomy.

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, Astronomy that benefits from using either an airborne observatory or such a telescope or detector system is airborne astronomy.

	Yes
	No

2 Which of the following are observatories on Earth?

	Chandra X-ray Observatory
	Big Bear
	TRACE
	Kodaikanal
	the Hubble
	Lomnický štít
	McMath-Pierce
	SOFIA

3 Yes or No, An airborne observatory is an airplane or balloon with an astronomical telescope.

	Yes
	No

4 Complete the text:

Match up the altitude with its concept:

altitude - A

meters above sea level - B

indicated altitude - C

absolute altitude - D

true altitude - E

height - F

pressure altitude - G

density altitude - H

altitude in terms of distance above a certain point

masl .

usually a vertical distance measurement .

altitude in terms of the density of the air .

the altimeter reading .

altitude in terms of air pressure .

altitude in elevation above sea level .

distance above the ground directly .

5 True or False, A sunrise may be detected by an airborne observatory.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 Which of the following are observatories on Earth?

	Chandra X-ray Observatory
	Giza Pyramids
	TRACE
	Tuorla Observatory
	the Hubble
	Aldershot Observatory
	Stonehenge
	SOFIA

7 Yes or No, Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry is now the accepted leading technique for uranium prospecting with worldwide applications for geological mapping, mineral exploration & environmental monitoring.

	Yes
	No

8 Complete the text:

Match up the item letter with each of the possibilities below:

Balloons - A

Sounding rockets - B

Aircraft assisted launches - C

Orbital rocketry - D

Shuttle payload - E

Heliocentric rocketry - F

Exploratory rocketry - G

Lunar rover - H

Ranger 5

microcalorimeter arrays .

MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy .

Lunokhod 2 .

ALEXIS .

Ulysses .

Broad Band X-Ray Telescope .

Solar Heliospheric Observatory .

9 Yes or No, Gamma rays at energies of 0.3 to 8 megaelectron volts (MeV) were detected on 15 April 1988 from four nuclear-powered satellites including Cosmos 1900 and Cosmos 1932 as they flew over a balloon-borne double Compton gamma-ray telescope.

	Yes
	No

10 Complete the text:

Match up the altitude region with its altitude:

troposphere - A

stratosphere - B

mesosphere - C

thermosphere - D

exosphere - E

58 to 68 km .

surface to between 8,000 and 18,000 m .

143 km to 153 km .

10,818 to 10,828 km .

818 km to 828 km .

Hypotheses

Main resource: Hypotheses

1. Airborne astronomy from sufficient altitude should be able to almost replace sounding rockets.

See also

• Earth orbits/Astronomy/Quiz

External links

• International Astronomical Union
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database - NED
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• SDSS Quick Look tool: SkyServer
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• SIMBAD Web interface, Harvard alternate
• Universal coordinate converter

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