Moon Boom
This moon has lakes of liquid methane.
What is Saturn’s moon, Titan?
This is the largest constellation in the sky.
What is Hydra?
NASA’s full name
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
The planet with the hottest average surface temperature of all in the solar system
What is Venus?
First element discovered in Space
What is Helium?
This moon rotates backwards.
What is Neptune’s moon, Triton?
This constellation came about when a hunter was bit by a scorpion.
What is Orion?
The year that NASA as we know it was officially established.
When was 1958?
This is the number of planets that have been known since ancient times (excluding Earth)
What is 5?
This equation is used to estimate the number of alien civilizations that we could communicate with.
What is the Drake Equation?
The term used to describe a small object that has enough gravity to affect the ice around it, but not large enough to be a moon.
What is a moonlet?
The brighter star in the constellation that depicts twin princes from Sparta.
What is Pollux (in Gemini)?
This 4-part NASA mission is meant to explore and establish a long-term human presence on the moon.
What is the NASA Artemis campaign?
This is the original meaning of the word “planet” (πλάνης) in Greek
What is “wanderer”?
Approximately many minutes it takes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.
How many is 8 minutes?
The first 2 discovered moons of Uranus are named after characters from which Shakespearean play?
What is A Midsummer Night’s Dream? (Moons are Titania and Oberon)
Zodiac constellation best seen from September to January, peaking around early November.
What is Pisces?
The federal agency that predated NASA.
What is the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)?
This German-British astronomer discovered Uranus
Who is William Herschel?
The characterization method used to determine how similar a planetary-mass object is to Earth on a scale of 0 to 1.
What is the Earth Similarity Index (ESI)?
The tallest known cliff in our solar system (33,000 ft), Verona Rupes, exists on this moon.
What is Miranda, a moon of Uranus?
Incan name of the constellation Lyra, and is worshipped as an animal deity in Peru.
Who is Urcuchillay?
This children’s toy was invented by a NASA scientist who worked on the Galileo mission.
What is the Super Soaker water gun?
This astronomer predicted the existence of Neptune before it was observed
Who is Urbain le Verrier or John Couch Adams?
The largest organic molecules found on Mars in 2025 fall into this class of chemicals.
What are hydrocarbons?