seth edwards space 6th
Across
- 1. a group of millions or billions of stars held together by gravity
- 4. a wide zone of small particles that orbit a planet
- 8. a satellite in which people can live and work for long periods
- 10. the colors that make up visible light
- 13. a dark area of the moon
- 14. an object that orbits a more massive object
- 15. sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemisphere
- 17. a divide that gathers electromagnetic radiation
- 18. a spacecraft that drops into a planet's atmosphere
- 19. crater when an object strikes the surface of a larger object in space it explodes and leaves behind a round pit called an
Down
- 1. jupiter saturn uranus and neptune
- 2. a craft designed to land on a planet's surface
- 3. occurs when molten rock moves from a planets hot interior onto its surface
- 5. a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky
- 6. small solid rocky bodies that orbit close to the sun
- 7. the path of an object in space as it moves around another object
- 9. a small icy object that is difficult to see
- 11. when a shadow makes the sun or moon seem to grow dark
- 12. particles that become very hot enough to glow producing brife strikes of light
- 16. a space object that reaches earths surface