12 space facts to test your knowledge of the stars! How many of these space facts can you answer? Check out our Instagram page for more fun space facts!
Questions:
- Which planet is nearest to the Earth?
- What is the largest planet in our solar system?
- What year did man first walk on the moon?
- What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
- What planet has the most moons?
- What planet has the least moons?
- How many manned Apollo missions were there?
- How many stars are there in space?
- How old is our solar system?
- What do Saturn Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus have in common?
- What mission do we think NASA requested Astronaut Ice Cream for?
Answers:
- Mercury
- Jupiter
- July 20th, 1969, two astronauts set foot on the moon for the first time in human history during the Apollo 11 mission.
- Venus! Most people think that this would be Mercury, as it is the closest planet to the sun. However, Venus has a lot of gasses in its atmosphere which creates a “Greenhouse Effect” that causes a constant temperature of 864° Fahrenheit (462° Celsius) everywhere on the plant’s surface.
- The Moon controls our tides. This is because the Moon’s tidal force causes the Earth – and the water on it – to bulge out on the side closest to the Moon.
- Jupiter with 66 moons
- Both Venus and Mercury have no moons.
- 12 (Apollo 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ,13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
- Nobody knows! Space is so vast that the number of starts is uncountable.
- Scientists believe that the solar system in 4.6 billion years old.
- None of these planets could be walked on, they have no solid surface.
- The Apollo missions!
