vocabulary
The full circular movement of the Earth in its axis.
rotation
The latest probe was sent to Mars in 2020 is
Perseverance
What is calculated in the parallax technique?
Distance of stars
What is the model that suggests Earth as the center of the universe where celestial bodies revolve around it?
Geocentric Model
The name of the highest mountain on Mars. (complete name)
Mt. Olympus Mons
The term used when the moon totally blocks the entire image of the sun in the sky?
total solar eclipse
The team taht explored Enceladus for more than a decade, uncovering one secret at a time, until reaching the startling conclusion that the tiny moon hides a global ocean of liquid water with hydrothermal vents.
Cassini
The most distant artificial spacecraft sent by humans to explore the galaxy is the ____ .
Voyager 1
The earth tilts how many degrees?
the first space station.
The first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
A piece of rock that enters our atmosphere, with a tail, and dissolves before it lands. AKA shooting star
meteor
The name of the drone that used to fly first in the Martian atmosphere.
Ingenuity
The first man in space
Yuri Gagarin
The equal distribution of day and night happens.
equinox
The name of the comet that appears in the Earth’s sky every 75- 76 years
Halley's Comet
Hertsprung-Russel Diagram
It is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy. It is now the latest powerful telescope used by NASA.
James-Webb Space Telescope
It was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. (name of the the space craft)
Apollo 11
A _____ is an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the Earth.
solstice
The first artificial satellite of the moon.
Luna 10 was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit anybody beyond the Earth.
A highly luminous object in the early universe thought to be powered by supermassive black holes.
Quasars
NASA's latest spacecraft recently touches the sun's surface.
Parker Space Probe
The nearest galaxy is the closest large spiral galaxy to the milky way.
Andromeda galaxy
How many hours of daytime t during a winter solstice? (average hours)
8-9 hours
Approximately how many miles (or kilometers) are there in a light-year?
5.9 trillion (9.5 trillion km)