Planes, Trains and Spacecrafts
A type of spacecraft that orbits a planet, gathering more detailed information about the planet.
What is an orbiter?
The planet where the dinosaurs lived, snow falls and we currently have science class.
What is Earth?
The three types of telescopes we have discussed in class (hint: the three Rs).
What is Reflecting, Refracting and Radio Telescopes?
The type of telescope that collects signals, not images.
What is a radio telescope?
The sport that Mr. G coaches.
What is Swimming?
A spacecraft that flies in order to travel a large distance quickly, taking less detailed pictures along the way.
What is a flyby?
The region consisting of the planets, various meteor belts, the sun, and everything else held together by the sun's gravity.
What is the Solar System.
Until recently, the most powerful telescope that humans have created, which is located right outside the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The Theory that states that solar systems revolve around an object of great mass (like the sun and other stars).
What is the Heliocentric Theory?
The name of the plant in our room.
What is Greenbean?
A spacecraft that will land on a planet and conduct experiments, including collecting rock and soil samples.
What is a rover/lander?
Millions and billions of stars, solar systems and other planetary bodies held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
A new telescope, which is located about three times farther than the moon to Earth.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
The Theory that the solar system revolves around the Earth.
What is the Geocentric Theory?
Mr. G's favorite color.
What is Blue/Pink?
A spacecraft that will enter a planet's atmosphere and collects gas and temperature samples.
What is a probe?
All matter and energy that has ever existed.
What is the universe?
One piece of evidence as to how the universe is expanding.
What is the separation of celestial bodies?
The reason that the Northern Lights were visible all the way to Alabama recently.
What is a Solar Storm?
Mr. G's major in college.
What is Biology?
The name of the spacecraft that is furthest from the planet and responsible for the picture, the Pale Blue Dot.
What is Voyager 1.
The name of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is Sagittarius A*.
The two main reasons why telescopes in space provide clearer images than telescopes on Earth.
What is to avoid both light pollution and the atmosphere?
The name of the region where planets are said to be able to support life.
What is the Habitable/Goldilocks Zone?
Mr. G's favorite class period.
What is Mr. G does not have a favorite period.