Minor Bodies
Several minor bodies orbit in this region with most of the solar system's asteroids.
What is the Main Belt?
The North pole of Saturn has a cloud formation shaped like this.
What is a hexagon?
What is complete one rotation about its axis (day)?
Kuiper Belt objects are sometimes referred to as "trans-" this planet "-ian".
What is Neptune?
This moon is so unusual because of its relative size to its parent body.
What is The Moon (Luna)?
The Dawn spacecraft orbited this body first before moving on to Ceres.
What is Vesta?
A type of gas giant, not seen in our solar system, orbiting very close to the sun, is known as this.
What is a hot Jupiter?
Carbon Dioxide and this element are the major constituents of Venus' atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This compound- often used for energy on Earth- is very common on Kuiper Belt bodies.
What is Methane?
What are captured asteroids?
This is the second asteroid to be discovered.
What is Pallas?
The magnetic fields of Jupiter and Saturn are caused by a rotating shell of this.
What is Metallic Hydrogen?
In the deep atmosphere of Venus, the atmosphere transitions into this state.
What is supercritical?
This body was the target of a secondary flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft.
What is Arrokoth (Ultima Thule)?
This moon of Saturn has a prominent equatorial ridge.
What is Iapetus?
Many of the mountains on the body Ceres were caused by this.
What is cryovolcanism?
The middle-interiors of Neptune and Uranus are thought to consist mostly of ammonia, methane, and this.
What is water?
The Soviet Union launched this pair of missions that used balloons to explore the Venutian atmosphere.
What are Vega-1 and Vega-2?
This body shares many characteristics with Pluto, with a notable spin on its appearance.
What is Haumea?
The Huygens spacecraft which landed on Titan found rocks made of this scattered around its landing site.
What is water ice?
Vesta is the largest solar system body not known to have undergone this.
What is differentiation?
The outermost large ring of Saturn is known as this.
What is the A-Ring?
The Coronae on Venus- concentric circles of fracturing- are caused by mantle moving closer to the surface, followed by this.
What is collapse?
This family of chemicals- formed by the fracturing of other compounds by UV radiation- gives the surface of Pluto noticeable variations in the IR spectrum.
What are Tholins?
Dactyl is the moon of this asteroid.
What is Ida?