The Milky Way
The Milky Way galaxy is named after
What is its appearance?
The highest point on the Earth’s surface
What is 29,000 feet above sea level?
An astronaut that weighs 180 pounds will weigh ____ pounds on the Moon's surface
What is 30 pounds?
Of the eight planets in the Solar System, Mercury
has the greatest
What is orbital speed?
Mars is named after the Roman god
Between March and October, the Milky Way is
visible from Earth in the direction of the
constellation
What is Sagittarius?
Total surface area of Earth in square miles
What is 200 million square miles?
In order to determine the Moon’s size, scientists
measure the Moon’s
What is angular diameter and its distance from Earth?
The largest crater on Mercury
What is Caloris Basin?
The name of Mars (and solar system) largest volcano
What is Olympus Mons?
The stars the galaxy contains
What is between 100 million and 400 million?
Mount Everest sits on the border between China and
What is Nepal?
Craters on the Moon are typically named after
What are famous scientists?
How did the scarps on Mercury form?
The planet’s interior cooled and shrank.
Primary consumption of Mars's atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
Diameter of the milky way galaxy
What is 100,000 light-years?
Earth’s deepest measured underwater spot is below
the
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The name of small craters on a celestial body's surface
What are craterlets?
The reason Mercury does not have seasons
What is the vertical axis of rotation?
During the daytime, Mars’s sky is CLOSEST in color
to
What is pink?
Where are the arms of the Milky Way galaxy radiated outward from?
What is the galactic bulge?
The location of Earth's oldest discovered rocks.
What is Canada?
The way most craters are formed on the Moon's surface
Meteoroids strike the surface.
The spacecraft that NASA launched in 2004 to further investigate Mercury
What is the Messenger?
Valles Mariner is Mars’s largest
What is canyon?