We Will, We Will Rock You!
This is the only known planet confirmed to have life (so far)
What is Earth?
This planet has a thick atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide that keeps heat trapped on its surface
What is Venus?
The scientist credited for inventing the "useful telescope"... and an opponent to the Catholic Church's demand for doctrinal obedience over self-thought and enlightenment
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Regolith, Maria, Highlands, IMPs...
What is The Moon?
The name for a rocky object that entered the Earth's atmosphere and has landed on the surface
What is a Meteorite?
Fusion in stars creates new elements, referred to by this process name
What is Nucleosynthesis?
The blue color of the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, is due to the presence of this gaseous compound in their atmospheres
What is Methane?
The ability to bend bent light into focus when passing through a medium, scientifically referred to as this process
What is Refraction?
Active volcanoes formed by tidal deformation of this sulfur-rich satellite
What is Io?
Decorated by dark belts and light zones, this planet is the second largest object in the Solar System
What is Jupiter?
The spectral classification list we use to organize the stars by temperature (starting from hottest to coldest)
What is OBAFGKM(LTY)?
The extremely hot temperature experienced on Venus is due to this process; caused by heat-trapping gases
What is the Runaway Greenhouse Effect?
The Earth's crust is in a constant state of movement and recycling (causing earthquakes and many volacanoes), referred to as this process
What is Plate Tectonics?
Oceans of (extremely cold) liquid methane
What is Titan?
Mars is home to this volcano, the largest in the Solar System
What is Olympus Mons?
The relationship/law relating a star's color and its outer surface temperature
What is Wien's Law?
This vortex storm has appeared and disappeared intermittently over the last few decades
It took 30 years to obtain complete pictures of this impact crater on Mercury; so massive in scale that it created a vast scarred terrain on the completely opposite side of the planet
What is the Caloris Basin?
"Cantaloupe" geography on its surface
What is Triton?
The name of the "empty spaces/gaps" that divide the 3 main regions of the Asteroid Belt by object composition
What are the Kirkwood Gaps?
The name of the fusion reaction that slowly turns Helium into Carbon in a star's core
What is the Triple Alpha Process?
The direction of cyclonic storms on Earth, hurricanes and typhoons, is due to this (a consequence of the Earth's rotation)
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A type of reflecting telescope where a camera is used for focusing an image instead of the human eye (which is not sufficient for most wavelengths)
What is a Prime Focus telescope?
This object is the cause of the yearly Orionid Meteor Shower
What is Halley's Comet?