1. Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets?
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Exploring space
1 How did people first investigate the planets?
2 What was the first object to be sent into space?
3 What is the furthest place in the Solar System that humans have visited?
4 a) Who was the first person in space?
b) Who were the first people to walk on the Moon?

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Exploring space
5 The Hubble telescope is in orbit around the Earth. Why would a telescope in orbit be able to take better pictures than a telescope on Earth?

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Exploring space
6 The space probes on this page are not the only ones that have explored space. Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out:
a) Voyager 1 and 2
b) Galileo.
Pathfinder and Sojourner on Mars
Astronauts repairing the Hubble Space Telescope

4. Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets?
7Ld Focus on:
Exploring space
1 How did people first investigate the planets?
using telescopes
2 What was the first object to be sent into space?
Sputnik 1

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Exploring space
3 What is the furthest place in the Solar System that humans have visited?
the Moon
4 a) Who was the first person in space?
Gagarin
b) Who were the first people to walk on the Moon?
Armstrong and Aldrin

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Exploring space
5 The Hubble telescope is in orbit around the Earth. Why would a telescope in orbit be able to take better pictures than a telescope on Earth?
There is no atmosphere to interfere with the light from the stars.

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Exploring space
6 Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out:
a) Voyager 1 and 2
Voyager 1 and 2 were unmanned space probes that flew by the outer planets and returned pictures and other information to Earth.

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Exploring space
6 Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out:
b) Galileo.
Galileo was sent to Jupiter where it dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to collect more data about the planet’s surface. It continued to orbit Jupiter for some time, sending data about Jupiter’s moons back to Earth.