Robotic Space Probes

What this quiz asks

• What is stored on the golden records carried by both Voyager probes?
• In July 2015 NASA's New Horizons showed which world up close for the very first time?
• Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1.
• Which spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989?
• In 1970 the Soviet Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to send back data from the surface of which planet?
• In 1990 Voyager 1 looked back and photographed Earth from about 6 billion km away. What is that picture called?
• What keeps the Voyager probes powered, so far from the Sun?
• Did NASA's Juno probe rely on solar panels for its power at Jupiter?
• New Horizons went into orbit around Pluto to study it for several years.
• In 2011 NASA's MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit which planet?
• In 1973 Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to fly past which planet?
• Select ALL of these probes that are on paths that will carry them out of the Solar System.
• ESA's comet-chasing Rosetta mission took its name from what?
• NASA's Juno is named after the Roman goddess who could see through what, to watch her husband Jupiter?
• Select ALL of these spacecraft that have flown past or orbited Jupiter.
• What went wrong with the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter in the early 1990s?
• What happened when the Philae lander touched down on its comet in November 2014?
• In 1982 Venera 13 sent back the first colour pictures from the surface of Venus. For roughly how many minutes did it survive?
• What shape did New Horizons reveal when it flew past Arrokoth, in the Kuiper Belt, on 1 January 2019?
• Order these probes by launch date, earliest first.