Inner Planets
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
It takes Earth this long to orbit around the sun once
What is 365.25 days (365)?
This type of telescope detects radio waves from space
What is a radio telescope?
A group of galaxies that are found close together.
What is a cluster?
Humans could not survive on this planet because the surface temperature is 876 degrees and contains toxic sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
This planet is a bright blue gas giant with white clouds.
What is Neptune?
It takes Earth this long to complete 1 spin on its axis
What is 23.9 (24) hours?
This type of telescope collects visible light to form images
What is an optical telescope?
Formed by a collapsed star, has a very heavy gravitational pull.
What is a black hole?
This planet's day is longer than it's year
What is Mercury?
This planet receives very little light and heat so it is cold and dark
What is Uranus?
These cause sunspots
What are magnetic fields?
This type of telescope detects heat radiation
What is an Infrared telescope?
The pattern that a group of stars seems to make in the sky.
What is a constellation?
This planet's surface is a rock-filled desert with craters.
What is Mars?
These are Jupiter's 4 largest moons (Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa)
What are Galilean moons?
The moon blocks the sun and prevents its light from reaching Earth
What is a solar eclipse?
This space tool analyzes light
What is a spectroscope?
A massive, hot, shining, ball of gas.
What is a star?
This planet has very hot days and very cold nights.
What is Mercury?
This planet's surface is not solid, it is made up of bands of ammonia, water and methane clouds.
What is Saturn?
The moon is in the Earth's shadow preventing the moon from reflecting the sun's light
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is a satellite that is continuously inhabited by astronauts from various nations
What is the International Space Station?
Large chunks of rock and metal that orbit the sun in the region between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?