Crossword Game With Space Vocabulary
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- 5. The phases where the light of the moon is increasing, making it look bigger.
- 7. A space vehicle that can reach great distances with a special engine.
- 8. When a celestial body makes the action of going around in an orbit or elliptical course.
- 10. Spinning motion of an object about its own axis.
- 12. A rocket-launched spacecraft that is used to make repeated journeys from Earth to Earth orbit and also it is able to land on an unpowered aircraft.
- 13. When the moon orbits Earth but while doing it comes in between the sun and Earth which prevents any sunlight from reaching Earth
- 14. Ocean Surface periodic rise and fall that happens because of the gravitational force between Earth and the Sun/Moon
- 15. Machine sent to space usually orbiting around Earth or other plants to gather information/signal for example it helps scientists to tell the weather.
- 17. Half-shadow area that develops when a light source is partly covered by an object.
- 19. Means relation with the moon or resembling the moon
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- 1. It was a special program whose goal was a crewed lunar landing and return to earth
- 2. To see faraway objects astronomers use this tool
- 3. Opposite of the waxing phase.
- 4. Life Life that could exist or do exist on other planets outside of Earth even in another universe
- 6. When a planet's poles are inclined towards or away from the star the planet orbits
- 9. Occurs when the sun, Earth and Moon align or are in a straight line and the moon passes into Earth's shadow.
- 11. When a celestial object or spacecraft goes around stars, moon, planets, or especially periodic elliptical revolution in a curved path.
- 12. Unpiloted device that gathers scientific information and explores space.
- 16. Subsolar point of a planet passes through its own equator.
- 17. A celestial body's appearance changes depending on how much of its disk is lit by the Sun.
- 18. Sunspot dark central part.