Mars Basics
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" because of a chemical on its surface.
What is Mars?
Robots sent to explore planets are called these.
The Sun is best described as this type of object.
What is a star?
Mars has a very thin version of this, making breathing impossible.
What is an atmosphere?
An exoplanet is a planet that orbits this.
What is a star outside our solar system?
Mars is named after this Roman god.
Who is the god of war?
The mars rover that searched for signs of ancient life starting in 2021.
What is Perserverance?
Mars is the _____ planet from the Sun.
What is the fourth?
This gas makes up most of Mars' atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
The first exoplanets were discovered in the _____
What are the 1990s?
Mars has two small moons named Phobos and _____
What is Deimos?
This tool allows scientists to study planets without landing on them.
What is a telescope?
These objects orbit the Sun and include planets, asteroids, and comets.
What is the solar system?
Mars is much colder than Earth mainly because it is...
What is further from the Sun?
Most exoplanets are discovered using this space telescope?
What is the Kepler (Hubble Space Telescope or Roman also work)
Mars is about half the size of this planet.
What is Earth?
This spacecraft type orbits a plane to collect data.
What is a satellite?
Most asteroids found in this region between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
This resource would be most important for future human missions to Mars.
What is water?
This method detects exoplanets when they pass in front of their star.
What is the transit method?
This feature makes Mars appear red and is basically rust.
What is iron oxide?
This method studies rock composition by analyzing reflected light.
What is spectroscopy?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
One major danger for humans on Mars due to weak magnetic protection.
What is radiation exposure?
This region around a star is where liquid water could exist.
What is the habitable zone?