Our Solar System

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Across
  1. 1. Rover that landed on Mars in 2012
  2. 4. Building housing an astronomical telescope
  3. 5. United States robotic space probe launched 1989 to study Jupiter and its moons
  4. 6. First successful Mars lander in 1976
  5. 7. South region
  6. 8. Shuttle, Comprising of two solid rocket boosters, one external tank and an orbiter (or space plane)
  7. 11. NASA mission that mapped entire surface of Venus
  8. 13. United States space probe launched in 1972 passing Jupiter and first to leave our solar system
  9. 14. Occuring twice a year and is when the sun reaches maximum or minimum declination resulting in the longest and shortest days
  10. 18. Building with interior that projects the night sky
  11. 24. Four divisions of Earth's orbit around Sol marking changes in weather and daylight hours
  12. 29. Lab, First United States space station launched in 1973
  13. 32. Space Station, Intergovernmental establishment in orbit of Earth comprised of modules
  14. 35. Colloquial grouping of stars on the celestial sphere
  15. 36. NASA program beginning in 1992 to improve understanding of our solar system
  16. 37. Curie, Sojourner's flight spare
  17. 38. Airborne Observatory, Aka KAO jet used by NASA for infrared astronomy
  18. 39. First United States spacecraft to achieve orbit
  19. 40. Failed space shuttle resulting in death of 7 crew members in 1986
  20. 41. Path of Earth's orbit around Sol
  21. 43. Soviet crewed spacecraft resulting Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space
  22. 45. First Mars rover and first wheeled vehicle on another planet that landed in 1997
  23. 46. Occuring twice a year and is when the sun crosses the celestial equator resulting in day and night to be approximate in length
  24. 47. Space probes launched to photograph and study interplanetary matter of Mars and Venus
Down
  1. 1. Area on celestial sphere representing perceived outline or pattern of stars
  2. 2. Soviet artificial satellites and first launched into orbit in October 1957
  3. 3. Astronomy, traditional practice of observing the sky for time and navigation
  4. 9. Robotic interstellar probes launched in 1977 to collect data of Jupiter and Saturn
  5. 10. Motion, Yearly movement of stars on the celestial sphere
  6. 12. Soviet program that sent spacecraft to our moon for study
  7. 15. Mars rover active from 2004 to 2010
  8. 16. Communication using electromagnetic waves between 30 hertz and 300 gigahertz
  9. 17. Sphere, imaginary sphere around the observer on which celestial objects appear to lie
  10. 19. Global Surveyor, United States space probe launched in 1996 to globally map Mars
  11. 20. robotic lunar rovers made by the Soviets during the Moon race
  12. 21. Device that uses the reverberation of radio waves to sense objects
  13. 22. Tool used to see faraway objects
  14. 23. retired space shuttle that was created after Challenger
  15. 25. point 90 degrees from the horizon directly up
  16. 26. Fixed points in the night sky of object similar to Sol
  17. 27. North region
  18. 28. United States uncrewed space mission in the 1960s to take close photos of Luna
  19. 30. Russian space mission to Venus set to be launched in 2029
  20. 31. Research mission between NASA and ISA to study Saturn
  21. 33. Mission resulting in successful keeping of humans on the ISS since 2000
  22. 34. Third United States spaceflight program resulting in the first humans on Luna
  23. 42. Pathfinder, United States robotic spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1997
  24. 44. Eye, Visual perception without use of assisting factors