Mars Explorers
This substance gives Martian regolith its distinct red color.
What is iron oxide?
This law of physics is what explains how rockets can take off.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This radio transceiver is used to clean dirty plates.
What is RADAR Dish Washer?
This is the name for meteorites before they enter Earth's atmosphere.
What are asteroids?
This is what PARI stands for.
What is the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute?
This is the length of a Martian day.
What is 24 hours and 39 minutes?
This gravitational interaction keeps one side of the Moon facing Earth.
What are tidal forces?
This famous painting by Van Gogh is used to help young children who are scared of the dark.
What is Starry Night Light?
This planet is likely the reason for the formation of the asteroid belt.
What is Jupiter?
Under the guise of the Rosman Research Station, this government organization owned the PARI site between 1981 and 1995.
What is the NSA?
This gas is more abundant in the atmosphere during the summer months.
What is methane?
This is the name for planet-forming regions surrounding young stars.
What is a protoplanetary disk?
This geological feature in the Lion King evolved from African American music in the 1950s.
What is Pride Rock and Roll?
This is the largest known body in the asteroid belt.
What is Ceres?
Using 26 West and this satellite constellation, NASA was able to broadcast the first ever instance of satellite television.
What is ATS?
These are the three most abundant gasses in Mars' atmosphere.
What are carbon dioxide, argon, and nitrogen?
These are points in space where the gravity of multiple bodies are roughly equal.
What are LaGrange points?
This nursery rhyme waterspout crawler is a Marvel crime fighter.
Who is The Itsy-Bitsy Spider-Man?
These are the two modern classifications of meteorites.
What are chondrites and achondrites?
The HVAC system in this building can nearly instantly remove all the oxygen in case of a fire.
What is Building 4?
This mission was the first to observe proton aurorae in the Martian atmosphere.
What is MAVEN?
This moon-planet interaction creates strong radio emissions and extreme volcanism.
What is the Jupiter-Io flux tube?
This New York City nickname refers to the most special person ever.
This anomalous asteroid was likely the first interstellar object to pass through our solar system.
What is 'Oumuamua?
This is (one) of the titles of the movie filmed here at PARI.
What is Survive (or Escape Earth)?