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