Across
- 3. the methane in the atmosphere makes this planet look blue
- 5. an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication:
- 6. third planet from the sun
- 7. the natural satellite of the earth
- 9. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illuminatio
Down
- 1. largest planet in our solar system
- 2. a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
- 4. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer
- 8. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon
- 10. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.