ASTRO EXAM SOLVED AND APPROVED 2025-26 #16
Which of the following is not used as a pharmacological microgravity countermeasure? -
correct answer Vitamin B12
The evidence at the surface of Enceladus is only 10 to 1000 years old comes from.... -
correct answer The crystal structure of the water ice on the surface of the moon
Which of the following processes are thought to replenish the atmosphere if Titan? -
correct answer Cryovolcanism
If you had an infrared spectrophotometer Pointed at a nearby exoplanet, what gas
compound would give you the clearest Indication for life on that planet? - correct answer
Oxygen
If he spacecraft is flying 250 miles above the Earth's surface the gravitational field is -
correct answer 88.8% of normal
Which of the following is not an astrobiological biomarker? - correct answer Carbon
dioxide
Which of the following is a goal of bioregenerative of life support? - correct answer
Complete recycling of crew consumables
Which of the following methods would be used to analyze a lipid biomarker such as
hopane? - correct answer Gas chromatography
Hypothetically, if we found photosynthetic life on another planet we would expect the
following? - correct answer A depletion of heavier carbon isotopes
Which of the following scientist made the first map of Mars? - correct answer Christian
Huygens
Mars may have been more earth like in the past because - correct answer It's
atmosphere was thicker and warmer
Liquid water cannot exist for very long on the surface of Mars today because... - correct
answer It's atmosphere is too thin
Europa may have a subsurface ocean of liquid water due to - correct answer tidal
heating from Jupiter and the other Galilean moons
Given the organic materials need to react in order to produce life, this suggests we
should search for worlds in the solar system that have... - correct answer Either in
atmosphere, or a surface or subsurface liquid medium such as water, or both
Which of the following is not used as a pharmacological microgravity countermeasure? -
correct answer Vitamin B12
The evidence at the surface of Enceladus is only 10 to 1000 years old comes from.... -
correct answer The crystal structure of the water ice on the surface of the moon
Which of the following processes are thought to replenish the atmosphere if Titan? -
correct answer Cryovolcanism
If you had an infrared spectrophotometer Pointed at a nearby exoplanet, what gas
compound would give you the clearest Indication for life on that planet? - correct answer
Oxygen
If he spacecraft is flying 250 miles above the Earth's surface the gravitational field is -
correct answer 88.8% of normal
Which of the following is not an astrobiological biomarker? - correct answer Carbon
dioxide
Which of the following is a goal of bioregenerative of life support? - correct answer
Complete recycling of crew consumables
Which of the following methods would be used to analyze a lipid biomarker such as
hopane? - correct answer Gas chromatography
Hypothetically, if we found photosynthetic life on another planet we would expect the
following? - correct answer A depletion of heavier carbon isotopes
Which of the following scientist made the first map of Mars? - correct answer Christian
Huygens
Mars may have been more earth like in the past because - correct answer It's
atmosphere was thicker and warmer
Liquid water cannot exist for very long on the surface of Mars today because... - correct
answer It's atmosphere is too thin
Europa may have a subsurface ocean of liquid water due to - correct answer tidal
heating from Jupiter and the other Galilean moons
Given the organic materials need to react in order to produce life, this suggests we
should search for worlds in the solar system that have... - correct answer Either in
atmosphere, or a surface or subsurface liquid medium such as water, or both
