Solar System Superlatives
This planet has the longest orbit in the Solar System.
What is Neptune?
This is the only planet in the Solar System named for a female deity.
What is Venus?
This planet is the coldest in the Solar System.
What is Uranus?
This body has the most known moons of any planet in the Solar System.
What is Saturn?
She was the first American woman to go to space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This planet is the least dense in the Solar System.
What is Saturn?
Mars is named after the Roman god of war due to its blood red color. The equivalent Greek god is named this.
What is Ares?
Jupiter's most iconic feature is the largest storm in the Solar System, called this.
What is the Great Red Spot?
This moon is the Solar System's largest and one of only two that is bigger than a planet (Mercury).
What is Ganymede?
This chemical is responsible for the blue hues that characterize Uranus and Neptune.
What is methane?
At just under this many hours, a day on Jupiter is the shortest in the Solar System.
What is ten?
What is Saturday?
Despite not being the closest planet to the Sun, Venus has the hottest surface temperature in the Solar System (beside the Sun) due to this effect.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This moon is the Solar System's second largest and the only one to have a substantial atmosphere.
What is Titan?
This rocky planet layer comprises a much larger percentage of Mercury than of Earth.
What is the core?
Uranus's axial tilt is approximately this many degrees, the most extreme of any planet in the Solar System. (Two acceptable answers)
What is 82? (IAU definition)
What is 98? (right hand rule definition)
This is the only planet with a Greek name, unlike all of its Roman neighbors. Double or nothing: The equivalent Roman name is this.
What is Uranus?
What is Caelus?
Saturn's hexagon is a massive storm located on the planet's north pole, whose six sides are believed to be caused by these.
What are jetstreams?
Triton is Neptune's largest moon and the only sizable moon in the Solar System to have this type of orbit.
What is a retrograde orbit?
Each season on Uranus lasts approximately this many Earth years.
What is 21?
Venus's sidereal day (regular definition) is the longest in the Solar System, approximately this many days on Earth.
What is 243?
Wednesday is named after the Germanic god Woden, who is equivalent to this Roman god.
Who is Mercury?
Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System, reaching a maximum speed of approximately this many miles per hour.
What is 1,200?
Pluto and Charon exhibit this gravitational phenomenon, wherein both of them always face the other with the same orientation. (Hint: be specific!)
What is mutual tidal locking?
This is the controversial hypothesis that life is spread throughout the universe by traveling astronomical bodies, and therefore did not originate on Earth.
What is panspermia?