NASA’s Space Program
‘Powers of Deduction’ Quiz

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Or try to guess what the pictures below are then hover
your mouse pointer over them to find out if you were right!

1. Which picture is of a scientific balloon?

Project Mercury Altitude Wind Tunnel Gimbaling Rig  Scientific balloon  Altitude Wind Tunnel, built in 1944  Zero Gravity Facility in 1966

 A                       B                        C                       D

2. Which picture is of the International Space Station?

Space Shuttle Discovery  International Space Station  Syncom satellite  Ranger spacecraft

 A                       B                        C                       D

3. Which picture is not of Mars?

Mars  Husband Hill inside Mars' Gusev Crater.  Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador  Sulfur-rich rocks on Mars

 A                       B                        C                       D

 
4. Which picture is not of Space Shuttle Discovery?

Saturn V rocket ascends carrying the Apollo 17 crew  Space Shuttle Discovery  Space Shuttle Discovery stops atop NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.  Space Shuttle Discovery

 A                       B                        C                       D

5. Which picture is of an astronaut who
never actually travelled out of Earth's atmosphere?

Astronauts Steve Robinson (left) and Soichi Noguchi  Bill Dana  Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi  Silhouette of Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson

 A                       B                        C                       D

6. Which picture is not of Earth?

Sunrise, as seen from Space Shuttle Discovery  Earth  Sunset on Mars  The Indian Ocean as seen from space

 A                       B                        C                       D

7. Which picture is of Apollo 11?

Launch of Apollo 11   The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter lifts off fromCape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:43 a.m. EDT on Aug. 12, 2005.  Aurora 7 lifts off  Endeavour sits atop a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

 A                       B                        C                       D

8. Which picture is of the Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle?

Thermal Structures Tunnel  Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle  New Station Hardware  Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2) in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility

 A                       B                        C                       D

9. Which picture is of the Eagle Nebula?

Dusty ring around the star Fomalhaut  Embryonic stars  Supernova remnant N 63A  Detail of the Eagle Nebula

 A                       B                        C                       D

10. Which picture is of the North and South Maldives on Earth?

Shark Bay, Australia from the International Space Station  North and South Malosmadulu Atolls in the Maldives  Eruption of Klyuchevskaya in Russia  Madagascar in Blue and Green

 A                       B                        C                       D

11. Which of these pictures is not of Earth?

Nili Fossae region of Mars  Volcanoes near Mexico City  Topographical view of Shenandoah National Park  Algerian Sand Sea

 A                       B                        C                       D

12. Which photo is of Mars?

Volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io  Galileo image of Io  Huygens' images of Titan  Mars photo from Spirit

 A                       B                        C                       D

13. Which picture is of a Brown Dwarf star?

Sombrero Galaxy  Brown dwarf star  Elliptical galaxy NGC 1316  Butterfly Nebula

 A                       B                        C                       D

14. Which picture is of Gemini?

Gemini launch on March 23, 1965  Discovery on a Roll  Swift launch, artist's concept   X-43A Launch

 A                       B                        C                       D

15. Which picture is of Neptune?

Clouds of Neptune  Full moon floats in space  Global Callisto in Color  Saturn's Blues

 A                       B                        C                       D

 

 

Answers: B, B, C, A, B, C, A, B, D, B, A, D, B, A, A

 

Congratulations if you got more than half of them right. 
They are pretty tricky questions!

 

 

 

Images and alt text courtesy NASA