Multiple Choice Questions - Space 1. Which of the following phenomena cannot be observed on the surface of the Moon? Rising and setting of the SunSolar eclipseMotion of cometsTwinkling of stars 2. Which of the following planets has a revolution time which is shorter than its rotation time? JupiterVenusMarsUranus 3. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky? JupiterSaturnMarsMercury 4. Which female astronaut spent the maximum time in space? Lisa NorwakKalpana ChawlaSunita WilliamsNone of these 5. Which planet has the fastest revolution time? MercuryUranusNeptuneJupiter 6. An astronaut in outer space will observe sky as WhiteBlackBlueRed 7. Which of the following planets rotates in a direction opposite to the direction of earth's rotation? MarsJupiterVenusMercury 8. What is the average distance (approximate) between the Sun and the Earth? 70 x 105 km100 x 105 km110 x 106 km150 x 106 km 9. NASA's Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus? Halley's CometHale-BoppHyakutakeTempel 1 10. Which of the following planets has a lesser rotation time than the Earth? JupiterMarsMercuryVenus 11. What is the name of the first woman space tourist? Jullian MooreAnousheh AnsariPaula RadcliffeNamira Salim 12. Storms of gases are visible in the chromospheres of the Sun during CyclonesAnticyclonesLunar eclipseSolar eclipse 13. The name of the world's first black spaceman is Prensa Latina.Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez.Yury Rumanenko.Robert Mendereze. 14. The first person to enter into space was Valentina TereshkovaEdward H. WhiteYuri GagarinAlan Shepard 15. How much time does light require to travel distance of 150,000,000 kilometers from the Sun to the earth? 8 1/3 minutes8 1/2 minutes8 1/4 minutes9 minutes 16. The name of the galaxy in which the earth is a planet is AndromedaUrsa MajorUrsa MinorMilky Way 17. The asteroid belt is located between which two planets in the solar system? Earth and MarsMars and JupiterJupiter and SaturnSaturn and Uranus 18. The planet that lies at the outermost orbit of the solar system is : SaturnNeptuneMercuryUranus 19. Which of the following planets is named after a Greek God, unlike others which are named after Roman Gods? UranusNeptuneJupiterMercury 20. The planet nearest to the sun is : SaturnJupiterMarsMercury 21. A star of which colour can be said to be the coolest? YellowBlueRedBlack 22. In order to know the time, the astronauts orbiting in an earth satellite should use : a watch having mainspring to keep it goinga pendulum clockeither a pendulum clock or a watchan alarm clock 23. The planets on either side of the earth are : Mercury and Venus ,mars and Jupiter, mars and Venus, Venus and Saturn 24. Which of the following Planets have no moons? Pluto and Mercury,Mars and Venus,Mercury and Venus ,Pluto and Mars 25. Black hole is : A dark hollow cavity,A massive collapsing star, the other side on the moon ,the other side of sun 26. How old is the solar system (approximately)? 5 billion years,50 billion years,500 billion years,5 million years 27. Which of the following planets/celestial bodies is nearest to the Sun? Saturn ,Uranus, Neptune ,Pluto 28. According to International Astronomical Union which one of the following has lost its status as a planet? Jupiter ,Uranus, Neptune ,Pluto 29. ‘New Horizons’ spacecraft was launched by NASA to study which of the following planet? Mars ,Pluto, Jupiter ,mercury 30. The coldest planet in the solar system is : Pluto ,Venus, Uranus, Jupiter 31. Which of the following is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way? Andromeda, cartwheel galaxy, pinwheel galaxy,Whirlpool galaxy 32. Which planet has the solar system's highest mountain Olympus Mons? Jupiter,Uranus,Venus,Mars 33. Which of the following is not a gas planet? Jupiter ,Uranus,Venus,Neptune