IMPORTANT MISSIONS
The first spacecraft to land astronauts on the Moon in 1969.
Apollo 11
This is the center of the Sun, where fusion happens.
Core
This layer surrounds the Sun and looks like a white halo during an eclipse.
Corona
Optical telescopes collect this type of light.
Visible light
These planets are made of rock and metal and are smaller than the other planets in our solar system.
Inner Planets
This satellite was the first artificial object launched into space.
Sputnik 1
In this layer, hot material rises and cool material sinks.
Convective zone
This is the lowest layer of the Sun’s atmosphere.
Photosphere
This type of telescope produces the clearest images because it avoids Earth's atmosphere.
Space telescope
These planets made of mostly gas and liquid and are larger than the other planets in our solar system.
Outer planets
The first human-made mission to study Venus.
Mariner 2
The layer where energy moves outward very slowly as radiation.
Radiative zone
This layer is visible during a total solar eclipse.
Corona
The name of a major space telescope launched in 1990.
Hubble Space Telescope
This solar system object appears as a white ball with a long tail.
Comet
Two spacecraft sent to explore the outer planets.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
The zone responsible for carrying energy upward through moving plasma.
Convective zone
Sudden eruptions of intense energy from the Sun.
Solar flares
These telescopes collects this types of electromagnetic radiation and allows scientists to study the universe using large dishes.
Radio telescopes
Space objects that are smaller than asteroids and can burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Meteoroids
The rovers designed to search for signs of past life on Mars.
Mars Exploration Rovers
The deepest layer of the Sun’s interior.
Core
Huge loops of plasma that extend outward from the Sun.
Prominences
This NASA observatory studies the Sun using a powerful telescope.
Solar Dynamics Observatory
One of the rocky objects revolving around the sun that is too small and numerous to be considered a planet.
Asteroid