Mars Surface
Openings in a planet’s surface that release ash, gas and hot liquid rock (lava) in sometimes violent eruptions.
The name of the orbiter launched by NASA in 1996 to gather information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars, which helped future Mars rovers and lander missions by identifying potential landing sites.
What is the Mars Global Surveyor?
This is also called the "happy face" crater.
What is the Galle Crater?
Mars ranks in this place for the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is second place?
A glacier (a thick layer of ice and snow) that covers a large area and is typically found at the poles of a planet.
What is an ice cap?
The name of the rover launched by NASA on July 30, 2020 and scheduled to land on February 18, 2021.
This is a large area of Mars with ancient river valleys and impact craters. It's name means golden-yellow land.
What is Xanthe Terra?
Mars is named after the Roman God of this.
What is War?
A large depression or hole in the ground that is formed when impactors such as meteorites smash into a moon or planet's surface.
What is an impact crater?
The name of NASA's lander that set down on Mars in 2018.
What is the Insight?
The name of the area of Mars that consists of a northern ice cap surrounded by a large area of dunes formed by the wind.
What is the Northern Polar Sand Sea?
Mars is known as the "Red Planet" because of the large amount of this chemical in its rocks and soil.
What is iron oxide?
A feature of the landscape formed by flowing liquid, such as water or lava.
What is a channel?
The name of the spacecraft that captured the first up-close pictures of Mars in 1965.
What is the Mariner 4?
A giant system of channels carved by water.
What is the Kasei Valles?
There are this many planets between Mars and the sun.
What is 3?
A fracture in a planet’s crust that appears when large blocks of rock slowly move past each other. Earthquakes can occur when the movement is faster.
What is a fault?
The name of the first spacecraft to orbit another planet in 1971.
What is the Mariner 9?
The name of the 12 mile high volcano that commonly has clouds hanging around it?
Mars is home to this highest mountain in our solar system.
What is Olympus Mons?