Rockets, Satellites, and Spaceships
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- How does the Hubble Space Telescope work?
- How does the Hubble Telescope see back in time?
- Can the Hubble Telescope see into the past?
- How is the Hubble Telescope able to see such long distances?
- How do they repair the Hubble Space Telescope?
- How is the Hubble Telescope used?
- How does the Hubble Space Telescope affect society?
- Why were the observations made by the COBE satellite so important to cosmology?
- How long would it take a space probe to reach the farthest star in our solar system?
- How does the Hubble Space Telescope take pictures?
- How does the Hubble Space Telescope produce an image?
- Are the pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in color? Or do astronomers add color in after they are taken?
- Are the Hubble Space Telescope photos real? If a person was close enough, would the images be the same seen with the naked eye?
- Are the pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope edited?
- If the Hubble telescope can take excellent pictures of stars and galaxies forming millions of light years away, why can't it take a good picture of Pluto?
- Can the US government or CIA use Hubble telescope as a spy satellite to view high resolution images on earth?
- Is it possible to capture UFO images by the Hubble Space telescope?
- What is the resolution of Hubble Space Telescope images?
- How do images from the Hubble Space Telescope supposedly support "scientific creationism?"
- How has the Hubble Space Telescope helped humankind?
- How big is the Hubble Space Telescope? How big is its lens?
- How powerful is the Hubble Space Telescope? Would it be able to view a man walking on the moon?
- What is the Hubble telescope used for?
- What is the difference between the Kepler telescope and Hubble Telescope?
- How does the Hubble telescope take a picture of the Milky Way?
- How does the Hubble Space telescope see the universe in the past?
- What does the Hubble Space Telescope do?
- As the moon visits are still controversial to some people, why does NASA not use the Hubble Space Telescope to show images of the landing sites?
- How large is the Hubble Space Telescope?
- Why is the Hubble Space Telescope important to modern astronomy?
- How can the hubble telescope see millions of lightyears away but is unable to take a clear picture of Mars?
- Is the Hubble Space Telescope a refractor or a reflector?
- How can the Hubble Space telescope take pictures of the universe at it infancy?
- In how much detail could the Hubble Space telescope see the moon surface?
- Considering the Hubble Space telescope was launched in 1990, how many megapixel does hubble telescope have? How is it able to keep up with modern technology?
- What is the resolution of the Hubble space telescope? What would the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope be if it were a digital camera? Gigapixels? Terapixels?
- How was the Hubble Space Telescope put in space?
- How do we know if images from space are real or an artist's perception?
- Are the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope enhanced?
- Are the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope just a compilation of waves, such as gamma, x-ray, UV, etc?
- With so many satellites orbiting our planet, why are there so few images of earth from space?
- When we look at a picture of a galaxy, how is it possible that we see a disk form or a near perfect circle? Considering how long light takes to travel between the galaxy and the earth, shouldn't the images be more distorted?
- What would a nebula look like without graphic enhancement?
- Why aren't stars visible when earth is filmed from space?
- Where was the furthest image of the earth taken from?
- Does NASA have any satellites or probes that are taking constant footage of the earth?
- How does the Hubble Space Telescope take pictures? How long does it take it to take one photo?
- How do spacecrafts like Voyager 1 and 2 transmit pictures of space back to Earth? How do they receive flight instructions from such a long distance from earth?
- Who is responsible for editing photos taken from space? How do they decide to enhance them?
- How do space probes send images to earth?
- How do scientists know what colors to use when enhancing space images? Or do they take educated guesses?
- Why are space images typically black and white?
- Why are space images false color?
- What is the farthest photo taken of earth?
- How far away is the orbit of the closest man made satellite?
- How far away is the orbit of the closest man made satellite?
- How many man-made satellites are orbiting Earth?
- How fast do satellites orbit the earth? Does their speed of orbit relate to their distance from earth's atmosphere?
- How long does the space shuttle take to complete orbit around the earth? How fast are they traveling?
- Why does a satellite in polar orbit trace a curved path over Earth's Surface?
- What are satellite images based on?
- How often do satellites take pictures of earth?
- How do you calculate the distance above the surface of the earth to geosynchronous orbit?
- What is the life span of satellites? What happens to them once they complete their service?
- What planets have man-made satellites orbiting them?
- Do astronomers have satellites orbiting other planets in our solar system?
- On a journey to the Alpha Centauri star system, a space probe travels a distance of 4.12×1016 meters in 1.73×1010 seconds. Find its average speed in meters per second and how long did the journey take in light years?
- How did the Hubble Space Telescope help find evidence of the big bang?
- Galaxies are millions of light years away and we are able to capture images through cameras in telescopes. Do scientists leave the telescope pointing at space until the galaxies slowly start to appear? Or do they zoom in into space?
- The orbit of a spacecraft about the sun has a perihelion distance of 0.5 AU and an aphelion of 3.5 AU.? What is the spacecraft’s orbital period?
- What is the largest man-made satellite orbiting the earth?
- What is the average lifespan for a man-made satellite?
- How do scientists guide space probes?
- What types of tools are used to study the universe?
- What is a man made satellite?
- Why is the orbit of satellites at 4 earth radii(22,000 miles) is so special?
- Has a man-made satellite ever left our solar system?
- How long would it take a rocketship to reach Venus?
- What is the furthest man made satellite from Earth and how far away is it?
- How do scientists guide probes that are deep in space?
- How is data sent to earth from satellites?
- In what layer of the atmosphere do satellites orbit?
- Why doesn't NASA send a satellite (manned or unmanned) into a polar Earth orbit? The limits on the usual satellites are between about 45 degrees north 45 degrees south.
- What are the ten uses of satellites?
- What does a satellite do on a space probe?
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- Would it make sense to place an x-ray or gamma ray on a mountaintop? Explain why or why not.
- Has a spacecraft gone outside of the Milky Way Galaxy? If not, what is the farthest planet reached by a spacecraft?
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- What does Geostationary Orbit mean?
- How does NASA explain UFOs?
- Why does photography provide an improvement over naked-eye observations?
- What is the Cassini spacecraft? What is its mission?
- Why don't NASA space crafts capture images of the universe in color?
- What spacecrafts have visited the edges of our solar system?
- How long does it take us to receive images from spacecrafts deep in the solar system?
- How are we able to retrieve information from satellites and probes orbiting planets other than Earth?
- Where is Voyager 2 now? Where is it going?
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- How accurate was the film "The Martian"?