SPACE’INSPACE QUIZ’15

What did the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli call the strange markings he observed on the planet mars?

Canals

Which is the largest asteroid in the solar system?

Ceres

Which is the nearest star to the earth, after the sun?

Proxima centauri

With which planet would you associate the Cassini division?

Saturn

What was the name of the U.S. space shuttle which crashed during take-off in 1986?

Challenger

Thank you