Solar System II

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Across
  1. 2. I am a huge rock flying through space, usually orbiting the Sun.
  2. 5. I am the 5th, most recent, and largest rover sent to Mars. I landed there in February 2021.
  3. 8. I am a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. I am one of the fastest rotating objects in the solar system.
  4. 13. I was put into space in April 1990. I orbit Earth and take pictures of objects in space.
  5. 14. I am called this if I make it through Earth's atmosphere without totally burning up and land on the surface.
  6. 15. I am a combination of rocks & ice that orbits the Sun. Sometimes I am called a 'dirty snowball'. I usually have a tail.
  7. 16. I am a dwarf planet. I am the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter.
  8. 21. I am the name of the series of missions that landed humans on the Moon in the 1960s & 1970s.
  9. 22. I am one day on Mars. I also refer to the Sun.
  10. 25. I am the name of 2 satellites sent into space in the late 1970s. The two of us are the only man-made things to leave the solar system.
  11. 26. I am the 4th rover that was sent to Mars. I landed there in August, 2012.
Down
  1. 1. I am a dwarf planet. I am the 2nd brightest object in the Kuiper Belt.
  2. 3. I am the place where the Sun’s constant flow of material and magnetic field stops affecting its surroundings.
  3. 4. I am what makes a black hole black. I am considered to be its surface.
  4. 6. I am the name of the FUTURE series of missions to the Moon.
  5. 7. I am what is created after a large star caves in on itself. My gravity is so strong not even light can escape me.
  6. 9. I am what happens when a star explodes. I am the largest explosion humans have ever witnessed.
  7. 10. I am a ring of icy bodies just outside Neptune's orbit. I am where Pluto can be found.
  8. 11. I am a word that refers to the moon.
  9. 12. I am what is created when an object (such as an asteroid) crashes into the surface of something like the Moon.
  10. 14. I am a small rock flying through space.
  11. 17. I am one of the largest dwarf planets. I am about as big as Pluto but 3x farther away from the Sun.
  12. 18. I am one of the twin rovers sent to Mars in 2003-2004. I landed in an area called Meridiani Planum.
  13. 19. I am now classified as a dwarf planet, though I was once considered the 9th planet.
  14. 20. I was the very first rover sent to Mars. I landed there in July 1997.
  15. 23. I am a rock flying through Earth's atmosphere that glows due to heat/fluid friction. I am often called a 'shooting star'.
  16. 24. I am one of the twin rovers sent to Mars in 2003-2004. I landed in a region called Gusev Crater.