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- 6. an engine that provides thrust directly through the burning of its fuel without requiring the intake of air
- 7. the force that causes objects with mass to attract one another
- 11. Any of the large celestial bodies that revolve around the Sun in the solar system
- 12. relating to the land
- 13. a small object that enters Earth's atmosphere from space and burns due to friction, emitting light
- 14. move in an elliptical path around a center
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- 1. probe An unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to Earth
- 2. A celestial body of ice, dust, and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit
- 3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the American governmental agency dedicated to space exploration
- 4. the whole mass of air surrounding a planet
- 5. A vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside Earth's atmosphere
- 7. moons The four largest and brightest moons of Jupiter, which were discovered by Galileo Galilei: Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa
- 8. To spin on an axis; the spinning of Earth on its axis that causes day and night to occur
- 9. Composition of outer planets whose atmosphere is made of gases
- 10. belt The region between the inner and outer planets where most asteroids orbit around the Sun
- 14. A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body (such as the Moon and Mars)
- 15. The gravitationally-curved path of an object around a point in space