Planetary Missions — MCQs August 20, 2025 by u930973931_answers 50 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/50 Subscribe 1. Which was the first successful mission to fly by Mars in 1965? (A) Mariner 2 (B) Mariner 4 (C) Viking 1 (D) Pioneer 10 2. Which spacecraft was the first to successfully land on Mars? (A) Viking 1 (B) Mariner 9 (C) Pathfinder (D) Opportunity 3. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions were launched in which year? (A) 1975 (B) 1977 (C) 1980 (D) 1982 4. Which spacecraft was the first to orbit Jupiter? (A) Galileo (B) Voyager 1 (C) Juno (D) Pioneer 10 5. The Cassini-Huygens mission explored which planet? (A) Jupiter (B) Saturn (C) Uranus (D) Neptune 6. The Huygens probe landed on which moon? (A) Europa (B) Titan (C) Ganymede (D) Enceladus 7. The Juno mission is currently studying: (A) Saturn (B) Jupiter (C) Neptune (D) Uranus 8. Which spacecraft made the first flyby of Pluto? (A) Voyager 2 (B) Cassini (C) New Horizons (D) Pioneer 11 9. The New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in which year? (A) 2013 (B) 2015 (C) 2017 (D) 2019 10. The Magellan spacecraft mapped the surface of: (A) Mars (B) Venus (C) Mercury (D) Jupiter 11. Which mission was the first to orbit Mercury? (A) Mariner 10 (B) Messenger (C) BepiColombo (D) Pioneer 10 12. The BepiColombo mission is a joint project of: (A) NASA and JAXA (B) ESA and JAXA (C) NASA and ESA (D) Roscosmos and ESA 13. Which mission successfully delivered a rover to Mars in 1997? (A) Viking 1 (B) Pathfinder (C) Spirit (D) Curiosity 14. The Opportunity rover operated on Mars for how many years? (A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 15. Which mission landed the Curiosity rover on Mars? (A) Mars Pathfinder (B) Mars Exploration Rover (C) Mars Science Laboratory (D) Perseverance Rover 16. The Perseverance rover landed on Mars in: (A) 2018 (B) 2019 (C) 2020 (D) 2021 17. The Ingenuity helicopter was part of which mission? (A) Curiosity (B) Viking (C) Perseverance (D) Spirit 18. Which was the first spacecraft to fly by Uranus? (A) Pioneer 10 (B) Voyager 1 (C) Voyager 2 (D) Galileo 19. Which spacecraft was the first to visit Neptune? (A) Voyager 2 (B) Galileo (C) Cassini (D) New Horizons 20. The Parker Solar Probe is primarily studying: (A) Jupiter’s atmosphere (B) The Sun’s corona (C) Saturn’s rings (D) Pluto’s surface 21. The Viking 1 lander touched down on Mars in which year? (A) 1974 (B) 1976 (C) 1978 (D) 1980 22. The Luna 2 mission by the Soviet Union was the first to reach: (A) Mars (B) Venus (C) The Moon (D) Jupiter 23. Which country launched the Chandrayaan missions? (A) China (B) Japan (C) India (D) USA 24. The Mars Express mission is led by: (A) NASA (B) ESA (C) ISRO (D) JAXA 25. The Rosetta mission studied which comet? (A) Halley’s Comet (B) 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C) Hale-Bopp (D) Shoemaker-Levy 9 26. Which spacecraft crashed into a comet to study its interior? (A) Voyager 2 (B) Deep Impact (C) Rosetta (D) Stardust 27. The Stardust mission returned samples from: (A) Mars (B) Asteroid Itokawa (C) Comet Wild 2 (D) Moon 28. The Hayabusa missions were launched by: (A) NASA (B) ESA (C) JAXA (D) ISRO 29. Hayabusa2 collected samples from which asteroid? (A) Bennu (B) Itokawa (C) Ryugu (D) Vesta 30. OSIRIS-REx collected samples from which asteroid? (A) Bennu (B) Ryugu (C) Itokawa (D) Ceres 31. Which mission discovered active geysers on Enceladus? (A) Galileo (B) Cassini (C) Voyager 2 (D) New Horizons 32. The Philae lander was part of which mission? (A) Stardust (B) Rosetta (C) Hayabusa (D) OSIRIS-REx 33. The Dawn mission visited which two celestial bodies? (A) Ceres and Vesta (B) Bennu and Ryugu (C) Titan and Enceladus (D) Europa and Ganymede 34. Which spacecraft was the first to orbit an asteroid? (A) Dawn (B) Hayabusa (C) OSIRIS-REx (D) Galileo 35. Which country launched the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars? (A) Japan (B) India (C) China (D) USA 36. The Zhurong rover belongs to which mission? (A) Chandrayaan-2 (B) Tianwen-1 (C) Luna 25 (D) Mars Express 37. Which mission attempted a landing at the Moon’s south pole in 2019? (A) Chang’e 4 (B) Chandrayaan-2 (C) Luna 24 (D) Artemis I 38. The Chang’e 4 mission landed on which part of the Moon? (A) Near side (B) Far side (C) Equator (D) South pole 39. Which mission aims to return samples from Mars by the 2030s? (A) Perseverance (B) Tianwen-1 (C) Mars Sample Return (D) ExoMars 40. The ExoMars program is a collaboration between: (A) NASA and ESA (B) ESA and Roscosmos (C) JAXA and ESA (D) ISRO and NASA 41. Which probe first flew past Venus in 1962? (A) Mariner 2 (B) Venera 4 (C) Pioneer Venus (D) Magellan 42. The Soviet Venera missions primarily targeted: (A) Mars (B) Venus (C) Mercury (D) Jupiter 43. The Pioneer 10 spacecraft was the first to fly past: (A) Mars (B) Jupiter (C) Saturn (D) Uranus 44. Which spacecraft carried the Golden Record? (A) Mariner 4 (B) Voyager 1 and 2 (C) Pioneer 10 (D) Cassini 45. Which Mars rover discovered evidence of ancient water? (A) Spirit (B) Opportunity (C) Curiosity (D) Perseverance 46. Which spacecraft tested aerobraking at Mars? (A) Mars Odyssey (B) Mars Global Surveyor (C) Pathfinder (D) Viking 1 47. The Phoenix Mars mission was designed to study: (A) Atmosphere (B) Soil and water ice (C) Seismic activity (D) Dust storms 48. The Mars Odyssey orbiter is studying: (A) Jupiter’s moons (B) Martian climate and radiation (C) Asteroids (D) Saturn’s rings 49. Which mission studied Jupiter’s intense magnetosphere? (A) Galileo (B) Voyager 1 (C) Juno (D) Cassini 50. Which future NASA mission will study Europa’s habitability? (A) Europa Orbiter (B) Europa Clipper (C) Enceladus Explorer (D) Titan Dragonfly