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Ulysses (spacecraft) measures the variable speed of the solar wind. Credit: NASA – Marshall Space Flight Center.

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1 The Solar Oscillation Imager (SOI) onboard Ulysses provides high precision solar images 1024x1024 of

velocity, line intensity, continuum intensity, longitudinal magnetic field and limb position.

2 Complete the text:

The Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System (CELIAS) aboard

continuously samples the

and energetic ions of solar, interplanetary and

origin, as they sweep past SOHO.

3 Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument aboard SOHO?

only remote sensing instrument on SOHO
measuring the interaction between the solar wind and hydrogen gas
measuring hydrogen
watches the rest of the sky
looks at the Sun

4 Which of the following were performed by Ulysses?

passed the south solar pole
reached Jupiter for its "gravitational slingshot"
crossed the ecliptic equator
studied and monitored solar flares
put its cosmic gamma-ray burst detector into 'inactive' mode until it returned inside the orbit of Mars
detected and localized cosmic gamma-ray bursts
in-situ detection of Jovian aurorae

5 True or False, The Saturn V put SOHO into Earth orbit.

TRUE
FALSE

6 Yes or No, The Neutron Monitor aboard Ulysses was used to measure cosmic rays as well as neutrons.

Yes
No

7 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

.

8 Yes or No, The Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment (ERNE) aboard SOHO measures high-energy particles originating from the Sun and the Milky Way.

Yes
No

9 True or False, Heliocentric astronomy is astronomy performed from an approximately Sun-centered orbit.

TRUE
FALSE

10 Yes or No, The Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations (VIRGO) on board SOHO characterizes solar intensity oscillations and measures the total solar irradiance (known as the ‘solar constant’) to quantify its variability over periods of days to the duration of the mission.

Yes
No


Hypotheses

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  1. Questions can be designed to differentiate the various orbital astronomies.

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{{Radiation astronomy resources}}

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