Celestial Crosswords: Lunar Edition
Across
- 2. Discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1672, its the first moon in the Solar System to have rings discovered around it
- 5. The egg-shaped moon that orbits Saturn having a mean radius of just 1 mile
- 7. Has a crust of frozen nitrogen; Io, Venus and this moon are the only bodies besides the earth to have volcanic activity at present
- 10. The water particles ejected from the cryo-volcanoes of this moon form the 2nd outermost ring of Saturn
- 11. The "Frankenstein moon" of Uranus
- 12. A faint inner moon of Uranus, named after the roman god of love
- 13. A potato-shaped moon, tends to disrupt Saturn's F ring
- 15. Being in a co-orbital condition with its sister moon Janus, this moon switches orbits with Janus every 4 years
- 18. The largest moon in the solar system relative to its parent body
- 21. One of the inner moons of Saturn orbiting in Saturn's A ring; Shaped like a flying saucer or a ravioli
- 22. The double-lobed moon of Pluto
- 23. The farthest orbiting moon of any planet in the Solar System
- 25. The only moon in the solar system that has its own magnetic field
- 26. Named after the guardian of the land of the fire in Norse mythology
- 27. Orbits in the keeler gap of Saturn's rings, its known as the wavemaker moon causing ripples to form in the rings of Saturn
Down
- 1. Named after the nine-headed venomous snake monster in Chinese mythology, the only moon of the dwarf planet Gonggong
- 3. Being 1/4th of the Earth's diameter, this moon's 60-150 Km deep ocean may contain twice the amount of water as on the Earth
- 4. The closest moon of Uranus, is a shepherd moon that keeps the particles of the epsilon ring contained
- 6. Uranus' largest moon, named after the queen of fairies in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- 8. The first non-round moon to be discovered
- 9. The largest member of a 16 moon group which formed from a captured asteroid which broke off into the 16 pieces in a collision
- 12. Most cratered moon in the solar system
- 14. The reddest object in the solar system and appears to give out more heat than it receives from the Sun
- 16. One of the darkest moons in the Solar System; Shares it's name with one of the main characters of "Friends"
- 17. Also known as the Yin and Yang moon, where one side of the moon is bright and the other is dark
- 19. Has a crater(Stickney) half its size and is expected to crash into its planet in about 50 million years
- 20. A leafy vegetable
- 23. Taking 360 days to complete one orbit around Neptune, it has the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the Solar System
- 24. Closest moon of Saturn, has a giant impact crater which makes the moon look like the Death star from "Star Wars"