The Probe Team's Cometical Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. The number of operational probes in space at this moment
  2. 6. A problem encountered by probes, which is also a problem in Earth (hint: sun)
  3. 7. The knowledge and discoveries made because of probes and rovers are _______.
  4. 9. The number of cameras on Curiosity
  5. 10. wind __________ erosion affects the surface of Mars.
  6. 12. A rover that currently on Mars, and was there since 2003
  7. 15. Opportunity uses _______ energy
  8. 17. One of the companies that manufacture vehicles for NASA
  9. 19. Rovers are designed so that they are always in good _______ to send and receive data
  10. 21. One of the most well known space probes is called ______ 1.
  11. 22. Unlike probes, rovers cannot orbit around __________ objects
  12. 24. The planet where all the rovers are on
  13. 25. the speed of both Curiosity and Opportunity combined almost matches the average speed of a _______
  14. 26. One of the rovers' task is to collect _______ samples from Mars
Down
  1. 1. Space probes cost over 20 ______ dollars EACH!
  2. 2. The total amount of slides in this presentation (hint: >15, <20)
  3. 3. Boeing and Lockhead Martin are both very large _________ which help manufacture NASA's products.
  4. 4. The main power source of Curiosity (t__________c generator)
  5. 8. Opportunity is around the size of a ____ cart
  6. 9. A kind of species that has yet to be discovered on Mars (t_ _ _l)
  7. 11. Harsh space weather (two words, no spaces)
  8. 13. Some probes orbit around ________
  9. 14. In total, ____-four probes have been sent to space.
  10. 16. Curiosity is a bit ______ than Opportunity.
  11. 18. The new wave of space probes include one probe and ____ rovers.
  12. 20. The month which Curiosity was launched in
  13. 23. The food product that can be bought 2.78 billion times with the money used for space exploration