Solar System

Exploring Jezero Crater

Name the astronomer who discovered that Mars orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit

About how many exoplanets have been discovered using Direct Imaging

This is the Jezero crater that’s found on mars

An organism that can thrive in extreme conditions is called a….

What does this graph represent?

What are the tails of a comet made of? 😭

How is the atmospheric pressure of Mars as compared to the atmospheric pressure of the earth?

Which of the following is NOT one of the six most abundant biogenic elements found in organisms

Which planet was called the firestar?

In which constellation can Kepler 186 be spotted?

What does this graph represent

How many planets within our solar system can be seen without a telescope?

What is unusual about snow on Mars?

How many years (approx.) is the period of a long period comet? ☄️

This is Enceladus

Used IR wavelength to explore galaxy until it ran out of coolant

Used to see if flight is possible on Mars’ low gravity and thin atmosphere

Which one of Kepler’s laws predicts a planet will move more slowly when it is far from the sun and faster when closer

The purpose of the mission isto study the atmospheres of exoplanets and determine the composition of oxygen, cd, methane

An organism that can survive extreme environments of high salt concentration

Which of the following is not a compound discovered by Cassini on Enceladus

What is the eccentricity point of a perfect circle (why was this even a question 😭)

A comets tail points in which direction

What time was this question made? (Free point ig)

Discovered 6 new Saturn moons 😨

Which of the following is a moonless planet?

The planets periods P and semi-major axes a are related by p^2=a^3 is a state of which of Keplers laws?

Visited 2 asteroids - Gaspra and Ida

The geysers spewing ice on this moon are believed to have formed Saturn's E ring.

Why would global temperature drop if the Earth was struck by an asteroid several km in diameter or larger

Explored the Gustev Crater

Collecting sub-surface rock and sol samples to be collected by a later mission

Which planet is the 3rd brightest object in Earth's sky?

What are clouds on Venus composed from?

This picture vas taken on Venus

Which space telescope was one of the four telescopes in NASA's Great Observatories line?

use transit and radial velocity methods to determain mass of exoplanets and use spectroscopy to study atmosphere of EP

Landed and explored Gale Crater

The habitable zone for a planet orbiting a red-dwarf, class M star is

Is the primary method used to find exoplanets

Free answer what starts with the letter A

Which exoplanet system was discovered by a ground based telescope?

Was sent into space by a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket

Which planet in our solar system rotates clockwise?

This is Titan

Which way do the tail or tails of a comet point? 💫

Which of Kepler’s laws is called the Law of Harmonies

Examples of halophiles includes halobacterium and Horta werneckii

Winter is a few days shorter than summer for us in the Northern hemisphere. Which point is earth in January?

Follow up to Kepler - designed to look for exoplanets usinf transit method

How many asteroids have been identified?

balance btw The radiant energy that reaches a plnt from its ⭐️ and the energy that flows from the plnt back out to space

You would find Psychrophiles in the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake.

What moon besides Earth's moon has been landed on by a probe?

Explored Mars' polar region

Are you cool

Approx. how many exoplanets have been identified

How many large groups of rings does Saturn have?

What mission is scheduled to return to Earth on September 24, 2023

In which spectral region is it possible for astronomers to observe through clouds? UV

Which of these is the closest exoplanet Earth?

Galileo (the man not the mission🙄) discovered something about Venus with his 🔭 that shook old theories. What was it?

One example of a Acidophile is the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers.

Which type of asteroid is most common?

Spent 14-years traversing the flat, cratered plains of Meridiani Planum

Asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit are called?

Orbits earth at its L2 lagrange Point.

Can be used to determine a planets mass

Which of the following solar system objects was visited by Galileo?

An organism that can survive hot temp between 41 degrees C and 70 degrees C

First Earth sized planet found in its star’s habitable zone

The word Albedo refers to which of the following?

Uses changes in light curves to detect an object moving in front of a star

How long ( approximately) would a manned mission to Mars take to arrive on the planet?

Launched December 25, 2021.

What percentage of the Sun’s mass has been converted to energy?

Used to discover Kepler-186 and TOI-700

Spectral line splitting due to the influence of magnetic fields is called:

How was Fomalhaut B discovered?