Mars
Mars Features
Mars Rovers
What's in a Name?
Planet Potpourri
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The nickname of Mars.

What is the Red Planet?

100

The largest volcano in the solar system.

What is Olympus Mons?

100

The names of the two rovers currently working on Mars.

What are Curiosity and Perseverance? 

100

The meaning of the name Phobos.

What is phobia or fear?

100

The hottest planet in the solar system.

What is Venus?

200

The gravity of Mars compared to Earth.

What is 1/3 the Earth's gravity?

200

The largest canyon system in the solar system.

What is Valles Marineris?

200

The name of the helicopter that landed with the Mars 2020 rover.

What is Ingenuity?

200

The meaning of the word Deimos.

What is panic?

200

The density of this planet would enable it to float in water.

What is Saturn?

300

Mars can reach this temperature around the equator.

What is 76 degrees F?

300

The name of the region on Mars where the volcanoes seem to form a diagonal line.

What is the Tharsis Region?

300

The name of the two twin rovers which landed on Mars in 2004.

What are Spirit and Opportunity?

300

This is the meaning behind the nickname red planet.

What is the iron oxide in the soil?

300

There have been more missions to this planet than any other.

What is Mars?

400

The size of Mars compared to the Earth.

What is 1/2 the size of Earth? (4,221 mi, 6,794 km)

400

The name of the larger of the two Mars moons.

What is Phobos?

400

The name of the first rover that landed on Mars as part of the Pathfinder Mission.

What is Sojourner?

400

The meaning of Valles Marineris.

What is Mariner Valleys? (named after Mariner 9 orbiter mission)

400

This is the only planet not named after a Roman or Greek god.

What is Earth?

500

The atmosphere on Mars is mostly this gas.

What is Carbon Dioxide? (95%)

500

The name of the smaller of the two moons of Mars.

What is Deimos?

500

Rovers are searching for this on Mars.

What are the clues of past water and/or life on Mars?

500

This is the meaning of the name Olympus Mons.

What is Mount Olympus?

500

This planet has the most moons.

What is Jupiter? (67 moons)

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