Mars Explorers
Elementary Astrophysics
Before and After
Meteor-ology
PARI Lore
100

This substance gives Martian regolith its distinct red color.

What is iron oxide?

100

This law of physics is what explains how rockets can take off.

What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?

100

This radio transceiver is used to clean dirty plates.

What is RADAR Dish Washer?

100

This is the name for meteorites before they enter Earth's atmosphere.

What are asteroids?

100

This is what PARI stands for.

What is the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute?

200

This is the length of a Martian day.

What is 24 hours and 39 minutes?

200

This gravitational interaction keeps one side of the Moon facing Earth.

What are tidal forces?

200

This famous painting by Van Gogh is used to help young children who are scared of the dark.

What is Starry Night Light?

200

This planet is likely the reason for the formation of the asteroid belt.

What is Jupiter?

200

Under the guise of the Rosman Research Station, this government organization owned the PARI site between 1981 and 1995.

What is the NSA?

300

This gas is more abundant in the atmosphere during the summer months.

What is methane?

300

This is the name for planet-forming regions surrounding young stars.

What is a protoplanetary disk?

300

This geological feature in the Lion King evolved from African American music in the 1950s.

What is Pride Rock and Roll?

300

This is the largest known body in the asteroid belt.

What is Ceres?

300

Using 26 West and this satellite constellation, NASA was able to broadcast the first ever instance of satellite television.

What is ATS?

400

These are the three most abundant gasses in Mars' atmosphere.

What are carbon dioxide, argon, and nitrogen?

400

These are points in space where the gravity of multiple bodies are roughly equal.

What are LaGrange points?

400

This nursery rhyme waterspout crawler is a Marvel crime fighter.

Who is The Itsy-Bitsy Spider-Man?

400

These are the two modern classifications of meteorites.

What are chondrites and achondrites?

400

The HVAC system in this building can nearly instantly remove all the oxygen in case of a fire.

What is Building 4?

500

This mission was the first to observe proton aurorae in the Martian atmosphere.

What is MAVEN?

500

This moon-planet interaction creates strong radio emissions and extreme volcanism.

What is the Jupiter-Io flux tube?

500

This New York City nickname refers to the most special person ever.

What is The Big Apple of My Eye?
500

This anomalous asteroid was likely the first interstellar object to pass through our solar system.

What is 'Oumuamua?

500

This is (one) of the titles of the movie filmed here at PARI.

What is Survive (or Escape Earth)?