Q. On February 9, 1991, ROSAT, an orbiting observatory, finished the first ever all-sky survey of

A
radio waves
B
infrared radiation
C
ultraviolet radiation
D
x-rays
Solution:

According to NASA, the Roentgensatellit (ROSAT) was a joint German, U.S. and British X-ray astrophysics project.

ROSAT carried a German-built imaging X-ray Telescope (XRT) with three focal plane instruments: two German Position Sensitive Proportional Counters (PSPC) and the US-supplied High Resolution Imager (HRI).

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