Solar System 101
What is Mars?
In ancient times, this group of people used constellations to tell their mythology stories.
Who are the Ancient Greeks?
Tom Hanks plays Jim Lovell in this movie about a lunar mission gone wrong.
What is Apollo 13?
This famous astrophysicist who lived with ALS and revolutionized the understanding of black holes.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
The very first scene of the film "Apollo 13" shows a tragic fire that killed 3 astronauts on this prior Apollo mission.
What is Apollo 1?
This gas giant is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The number of officially recognized constellations.
What is 88?
This mission to the moon is scheduled for take off in April 2026- and we will be on the space ship as virtual guests via NASA's passport program!
What is Artemis II?
In this year, astronomers won a Nobel Prize for discovering that a supermassive black hole's intense gravity can cause stars to orbit around it in a particular way.
What is 2020?
Bruce Willis plays a renowned driller in this film as he helms a dangerous space mission with his hotshot crew.
What is Armageddon?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
These matching constellations that are shaped like ladles are officially called Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, but you probably know them better by different names.
What are the Big and Little Dipper?
With the final mission taking place in 1972, this is the total number of missions that took place as a part of NASA's Apollo program.
What is 17?
Black holes do not provide shortcuts between different points in space or portals to other dimensions- but this other hypothetical type of hole in space does.
What is a worm hole?
In this film, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting a colonized Mars.
What is Total Recall?
This planet is farthest from the sun.
What is Neptune?
A constellation of 3 stars that are a part of a bigger constellation which tells the story of a famous mythological warrior.
What is Orion's Belt?
The commander and lunar module pilot of the Apollo 11 mission, these two astronauts were the first two men to walk on the moon in 1969.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
Massive objects like black holes can bend and distort ___________ from more distant objects.
What is light?
This director was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his work on E.T., but sadly did not win.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
Formerly the 9th planet in our solar system, it was reclassified in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
The number of labors that Hercules had to complete in his mythological story, which is also the number of zodiac signs.
What is 12?
The Apollo missions were inspired by this U.S. president who had the idea of sending men from NASA to the moon, and maybe even other planets.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This silly-sounding but real term describes what happens when matter gets too close to a black hole- it's squeezed horizontally and stretched vertically, resembling a particular noodle.
What is spaghettification?
The Men in Black use this device to erase memories.
What are neuralyzers?