Across
- 2. farthest point in an objects orbit to earth
- 7. layer of loose gtround up rock on the lunar surface
- 8. telescope that uses mirrors to focus bisible light.
- 11. light colored mountainous heavily cratered area of the moon composed mostly of lunar breccias
- 13. material that falls back to the lunar suface after being blasted out by the impact of a space object
- 14. eclipse when the moon passes between earth and the sun and the moon casts a shadow on earth blocking earths view of the sun can be partial or total
Down
- 1. crater crater formed when space material crashed into the surface of a celestial body
- 3. of earths orbit around the sun
- 4. period when the sun is overhead at its farthest distance either north or south of the equator
- 5. closest point in the moons elliptical orbit to earth
- 6. percentage of sunlight that is reflected by the surface of a planet or a satellite such as the moon \
- 9. telescope that uses lenses to focus bisible light
- 10. time of year during which earth axis is at 90 angle to the sun both hemispheres receive exactly 12 hours of sunlight and the sun is directly overhead at the equator
- 12. valleylike structure that meanders across some regions of the moons maria
- 15. long trail of ejecta that radiates outward from an impact crater