Across
- 4. The largest known one of these is 600 miles wide!
- 9. Space is completely _____. Since it is a vacuum, sound waves will have no medium to travel to. That means, no one will hear you scream in space, even if you shout the loudest!
- 10. All of the planets in the solar system have been visited by these (without crews).
- 12. Jupiter is the _____ planet in our solar system.
- 13. One day on _____ is longer than one year. The orbit of this planet around the Sun is 225 Earth days, making a year on Earth 18 days less than a day there.
Down
- 1. There is a _____ on Mars three times the size of Everest.
- 2. This famous comet only orbits past earth every 75-76 years.
- 3. The footprints on the Moon will be there for 100 _____ years.
- 5. In 1986, NASA found what they thought may be _____ of microscopic living things in a rock recovered from Mars.
- 6. The International Space Station is about as wide as one of these.
- 7. If two pieces of the same type of _____ touch in space they will permanently bond.
- 8. There are more stars in the universe than all the gains of _____ on Earth.
- 11. This planet orbits the Sun on its side - earning the nickname, "the sideways planet".
