Moons of Saturn
Across
- 3. natural satellite in the Solar System.
- 6. Atmosphere of titan is……..
- 8. fifth largest moon.
- 9. the only known object in space other than Earth on which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
- 11. an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, and liquid flowing across the surface to fill lakes and seas.
- 13. active moon that hides a global ocean of liquid salty water beneath its crust.
- 14. Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered Saturn's fifth-largest moon on March 11, 1684.
- 17. moon of Saturn (19th largest in the Solar System).
- 18. have significant amounts of phosphorus in its ocean.
- 22. matter from the cloud of gas and dust left over from our sun's formation.
- 24. moon is 4.56 billion years old.
Down
- 1. cratered and contains cracks caused by faults in the ice.
- 2. that it is composed almost entirely of water-ice.
- 4. British astronomer William Herschel spotted a moon orbiting Saturn on 28 August 1789.
- 5. planet’s mass is composed mainly of water in the form of ice and rocky material.
- 7. than the planet mercury. (Larger/Smaller)
- 10. mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan.
- 12. Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, on March 25, 1655.
- 14. atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen like Earth's but with a surface pressure 50 percent higher than Earth's.
- 15. carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.
- 16. surface temperature is extremely cold, about minus 330 degrees Fahrenheit
- 19. day on This moon is equal to 1.37 Earth days, or one day, 8 hours, and 53 minutes.
- 20. covered by fresh, clean ice, making it one of the most reflective bodies of the Solar System.
- 21. no magnetic field.
- 23. Noted feature of the moon tethys (Two Words)
- 25. is about 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon.