NASA's Solar System Explorer

SUN The sun has ___________ % of matter in the solar system.

MERCURY The sun shines ______________ times brighter on Mercury than the Earth.

VENUS Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of ____________________  _____________________ , which traps heat like a greenhouse.

EARTH & MOON The moon's ___________________________  helps smooth out Earth's wobble on its axis.

MOON The moon orbits the Earth once every ________________________ days or so.

EARTH Earth has a _______________________  ______________________  that protects the life forms on its surface from storms of particles from the sun.

MARS Mars had lots of ________________________ at one time, and no one knows what happened to it.

ASTEROID BELT Asteroids orbit between  Mars and ____________________________________ .

CERES Ceres is an asteroid that is about _________________________ miles across.

VESTA Vesta, a large asteroid,  may have had a ______________________ rock core at one time.

JUPITER Jupiter is the largest planet.  With its many moons and huge magnetic field, it's almost like a mini  ________________________  ________________________ .

JUNO The __________________________ , solar powered spacecraft,  will orbit Jupiter 33 times to gather information about Jupiter? 

JUNO GAME Juno is a cool BRAIN GAME.   What other game does the Juno game remind you of?

EUROPA Scientists would like to study below Europa's icy surface.  They would like to examine the ___________________  _______________________ for signs of life.

GANYMEDE Ganymede is larger than the planet  ___________________________ .

IO Io is an interesting moon.  It not only resembles a pizza, but its surface has active __________________________ .

CALLISTO Callisto has more __________________________ than any other object in the solar system. 

JUPITER Check all the information about Jupiter that is TRUE.

ENCELADAS Enceladus shoots jets of ___________________  ______________________ .  MMmmmm…no wonder I'm so thirsty. 

CASINI The Cassini spacecraft, that orbits Saturn, launched the ________________ _____________ into Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

CASSINI GAME How did  you like the Cassini Spacecraft game?

SATURN Check all facts about Saturn that are TRUE.

TITAN Titan has rivers of liquid ___________________ (the compound in natural gas). 

URANUS Methane makes Uranus look _____________________ (color).

URANUS JOKES……VERY LAME, BUT MOST KIDS LOVE THEM. Just for fun…….not graded.  Thanks to scientist, Ben Dover for his discovery, we can all look up at URANUS now.URANUS is four times the size of Earth, larger than originally believed.Scientists had originally thought URANUS was 1.7 billion miles from Earth. This is wrong. It's closer that you think!There are no incidents of moons associated with URANUS. PHEW!!! That was a close one.I didn't think URANUS was the one with a big red spot.Do you know what happens when you ride a bicycle on a different planet? I was hoping you'd know because I saw some skid marks around URANUS.When earth's rotation causes us to face URANUS, I can only hope I'm upwind.What are those rings around URANUS?News Flash: The massive black hole located dead center of URANUS seems to be pulling the two moons right in.Don't look now, but there are rings around URANUS.The top religious and scientific figures are debating whether URANUS is holy or not.URANUS makes earth seem small.URANUS and it's moons are always visible to the naked eye.This morning, NASA released a news statement saying there will never be a mission to URANUS. It is far to dangerous, due in part, to the crushing gravity of the black hole located in the heart of it and it's crappy terrain.Due to the poisonous gases that exist, Man can not survive anywhere near URANUS.New scientific studies reveal that there are not five moons on URANUS, but only two, very large moons.Although URANUS is very far from earth, due to its large size there is no surprise it took man so little time to find it.When I go to see URANUS, will it be bright? Remind me to bring my blinders anyway.