What exactly can the South Atlantic anomaly do to aircraft and spacecraft that pass through it?

What prevented the Hubble Space Telescope from imaging the Apollo landing sites?

We've got those questions and many more for you on today's edition of the Skeptoid Pop Quiz. Today,

I'm testing your knowledge of space quandaries. And in our extended content for premium members,

additional bonus questions to help you get your score up. That's all coming up right now on

Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Pop quiz. Space quandaries. Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history

from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's

not.

Today, I thought I'd torment you with a pop quiz, knowing that you have not studied for it.

However, if you've paid close attention to skeptoid for the past

19 years without ever having forgotten a detail from any episode, you should have no problem.

But for the rest of you, you're going to have to rely on your knowledge of space, but not just real space,

but skeptical space, meaning questions about space in which whack jobs and conspiracy

theorists have invented their own versions of reality to support their beliefs. So really,

you're going up against them today. Are you ready? Let's get started with

question number one, fun with Jupiter.

As discussed in Skeptoid number 143, a wacky conspiracy theory charges NASA with launching the Cassini probe to Jupiter, as a secret plan to turn Jupiter into a second sun.

Probably because they saw the movie 2010 the year we make

contact in which this actually happens. Note that I don't say that they probably read Arthur

C. Clark's original novel, 2010 Odyssey 2, because I doubt their reading skills are up to par.

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