NASA
The acronym NASA stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
The nickname for Mars.
What is the Red Planet?
The sixth planet from our sun.
What is Saturn?
What is Venus?
This scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The competition between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War achieve superior spaceflight capability.
What is the Space Race?
The equivalent of an Earth day in Mars.
What is a sol?
The first planet (excluding Earth) to be discovered.
What is Uranus?
The planet with the strongest winds in our Solar System.
What is Neptune?
The first human to land on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This president created NASA.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The two rovers that we've explored in class.
What are Opportunity and Curiosity?
The amount of minutes for sunlight to reach the Earth.
What is 8 minutes?
This is the name of the giant cloud of gas and dust where new stars are born.
What is a nebula?
This astronomer discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter using a telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The mission that took the first astronauts to the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The largest volcano in our Solar System located on Mars.
What is Olympus Mons?
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The amount of phases of the Moon.
BONUS: Name them
What is 8?
What are new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last (third) quarter, and waning crescent?
The total number of astronauts that have set foot on the moon.
What is 12?
This program will send astronauts back to the Moon and prepare for missions to Mars.
What is Artemis?
The moons of Mars.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
The amount of Earths that can fit in the Sun.
What is 1.3 million Earths?
The age of Earth.
What is 4.54 billion years?
This scientist is credited with discovering radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?