KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Voyager 1
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Viking 1 & 2
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Voyager 2
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Friendship 7
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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew closely past distant Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, in January. At its closet, the spacecraft came within 81, 800 kilometers (50, 600 miles) of Uranus’s cloudtops on Jan. 24, 1986.
Detailed explanation-2: -Planetary Tour Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored all the giant planets of our outer solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; 48 of their moons; and the unique system of rings and magnetic fields those planets possess.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bottom line: The phenomenal Voyager 2 spacecraft launched on August 20, 1977. It ultimately visited all four outer planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – and remains the only craft from Earth to have done so.