Rocky
The real name of the very hot planet Rocky is from.
40 Eridani A b
Grace is actually his last name. His first name is this.
Ryland
Spin drive
Earth life needs __ to live. This is the element version.
02
Xe is short for this, and its a gas.
Xenon
Rockys "human name for mate" is ______
Adrian
If you look closely at the whiteboard, you'll see this.
Always Muscles?!?!?!?!
This helps the Hail Mary have gravity.
Centerfuge
Earth is cool. But there's something is behind it.
The moon
Its water.
H20
Grace has a name for Rockys culture/religon. This is it.
Eridians.
At the start of the book/movie, Dr. Grace wakes up with a severe case of this condition, leaving him unable to remember his own name or why he's in space.
What is amnesia?
Because the main ship cannot return to Earth, it carries four smaller, automated shuttle crafts called these to send data back home.
What are The Beetles?
This is the scientific term for when liquid water heats up from the sun and turns into invisible water vapor gas.
What is evaporation?
Clocking in at about 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, this is the absolute speed limit of the universe.
What is the speed of light?
When Grace first meets Rocky, the alien is safe inside a mobile sphere made of this clear, heat-resistant material.
What is xenonite?
While working in his lab on Earth, Grace uses this type of specialized microscope to finally see that Astrophage actually has internal structures.
What is an electron microscope?
To survive the long years of traveling through deep space, the human crew spent the journey locked inside these medical devices.
What are coma beds? (Acceptable: Coma pods)
Even though it is incredibly hot, Earth's inner core stays completely solid instead of melting because of this intense physical force.
Gravity
Because space is a total vacuum with no air for these types of mechanical waves to travel through, space is completely silent.
What are sound waves?
Rocky's crew tragically died because Eridians never discovered this invisible layer of magnetic protection around planets, leaving them defenseless against cosmic radiation.
What is a magnetosphere? (Acceptable: Radiation shielding / Magnetic field)
Dr. Grace is sent on the Hail Mary mission to find out why a specific star, unlike all its neighbors, is completely immune to Astrophage.
What is Tau Ceti?
This is the name of the ship's onboard artificial intelligence computer that keeps track of the mission and tests Grace's memory.
Armondo
While plants need it to breathe, this specific gas traps heat in our atmosphere, and having too much of it causes global warming.
What is carbon dioxide? ($CO_2$)
This famous, world-changing equation proves that energy and mass are actually the exact same thing in different forms.
What is E=mc2?