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CAREFULLY READ THE PREVIOUS PAGE ON SPACE PROBES .
Column A below contains a number of statements whilst Column B contains a list of NASA's space probes. You have to correctly match the statement in Column A with the space probe from Column B. Write down in your exercise book the correctly matched pairs.
Column A (Statement) Column B (NASA's Space Probes)
Developed in the 1970s to explore Pioneer
Mars and Venus. They acted as
seismic and weather stations and
biological laboratories.
A series of 7 craft that explored Mariners
the other planets in the 1960s and
70s. There were all solar powered.
Drum shaped spacecraft sent to Two Pioneers and
explore Venus. They were equipped Two Voyagers
with Radar to look at the surface
features of the planet.
Launched in 1972 to explore Jupiter. Pioneer 10
Four spacecraft sent in the 1970s to Magellan, Galileo,
explore the outer regions of the Ulysses & Cassini
Solar System. They were all nuclear
powered.
The latest automatic spacecraft Viking Landers
which will increase our detailed
knowledge of the planets in the
Solar System.
Copy out each of the following sentences. Use the information from the "Space Probes" page to fill in the missing words.
1. The orbiters which carried the Viking Landers to Mars sent back information about the Martian --------.
2. Pioneer 10 was sent to explore Jupiter which is one of the four ------- planets, the others being -------, ------- and -------.
3. The Pioneer Venus multiprobe sent back information about the ------- of Venus.
