The Moon & Space Exploration
Across
- 2. Number of the first mission to put man on the moon
- 5. Improved the telescope and demonstrated Copernican theory
- 6. Missions that put man on the moon
- 8. A period of rotation synchronous with that of the Earth's rotation
- 14. In which the sun is obscured by the moon (2 words)
- 18. Probes sent to study Mars
Down
- 1. Process by which a planet is transformed so as to resemble the Earth
- 3. Name of the probe that has almost left our solar system
- 4. The Moon's gravitational pull on the Earth causes these
- 7. German astronomer who discovered the laws of orbital motion
- 9. A group of stars that form a shape or pattern
- 10. Artificial body placed in orbit around the Earth or another planet
- 11. Second full moon of the month (2 words)
- 12. Space station owned by the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe (abbr.)
- 13. Canada's space agency (abbr.)
- 15. A deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position or direction
- 16. Unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transit information about its environment
- 17. Amount of phases the Moon has