Stars and Constellations
Orbital Mechanics
Missions
Visual Clues
General Solar System
100
The star Polaris is found in this constellation.
What is Ursa Minor?
100
When a planet or moon turns all the way around or spins on its axis one time.
What is rotation?
100
This is the name of the first satellite launched into space, completed by the Soviet Union, be specific.
What is Sputnik 1?
100
What are the clouds on Jupiter?
100
Three non-plantery members of our solar system.
What are Meteroids, meteors, meteorites, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, Moons, Kuiper Belt, Oort cloud, Interplanetary Medium.
200
Also the name of Harry Potter's uncle, this star is found in the constellation of Canis Major.
What is Sirius?
200
The movement of one object around a center of another object.
Revolution.
200
The name of the mission in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the astronauts.
What is Apollo 11?
200
As observed from the William Keck observatory.
What are the rings on uranus?
200
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
300
The star in this constellation is called Spica.
What is Virgo?
300
When an object proceeds from west to east.
What is prograde?
300
This is the name of the mission in which a NASA spacecraft was sent to Mercury.
What is Mariner 10?
300
The names of this and the planet.
What are the sand dunes in Valles Marinaris on Mars.
300
These are the moons of Mars.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
400
These are the names of the stars that make up the Gemini twins.
What are Castor and Pollux?
400
This is the term for backwards movement.
What is Retrograde?
400
During this mission a probe was shot into the atmosphere of Jupiter spending several years surveying the moons.
What is Galileo?
400
What are the clouds on Neptune?
400
This is the name given to Jupiter's 4 largest moons including Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Galilean Moons.
500
Latin for "Bull", Taurus is where to look for these two stars.
What are Aldebaran and Pleiades?
500
These are the only two planets with retrograde rotation.
What are Venus and Uranus?
500
This is the actual name for SOHO.
What is the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory?
500
This event was caught on film off the coast of this country.
What is a Plankton bloom off Iceland.
500
This kind of star can be viewed year round and never sets.
What is a circumpolar star?