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Planet Webquest Answersheet2011

This document contains a planet webquest with questions about planets in our solar system. Students are asked to research different planets like Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto on various space agency websites and answer questions about facts like their surfaces, moons, missions and more. They are also asked to view images of different planets and surfaces and pick a favorite. The questions cover topics like temperature ranges on Mercury, surface features on Venus, past and current Mars missions, Jupiter's Great Red Spot and moons, Saturn's rings, Uranus' unusual rings, the color of Neptune, and Voyager missions to outer planets.

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Planet Webquest Answersheet2011

This document contains a planet webquest with questions about planets in our solar system. Students are asked to research different planets like Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto on various space agency websites and answer questions about facts like their surfaces, moons, missions and more. They are also asked to view images of different planets and surfaces and pick a favorite. The questions cover topics like temperature ranges on Mercury, surface features on Venus, past and current Mars missions, Jupiter's Great Red Spot and moons, Saturn's rings, Uranus' unusual rings, the color of Neptune, and Voyager missions to outer planets.

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Name:__________________________________________________ Date:_____________

Planet Webquest

Mercury http://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html

1. What spacecraft have visited or will visit Mercury? What are the names and years?

2. Click on some of the pictures of Mercury. Describe the surface.

3. Mercury has the most extreme temperature ranges. What are they?

Venus http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus&Display=Overview

4. Why is Venus sometimes called Earth’s twin?

5. Why is Venus the brightest planet in the night sky?

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/venus/surface.html

6. What are some of the surface features on Venus that are similar to the Earth?

Mars http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/

7. How many past mission to Mars have there been?

8. How many current missions to Mars are there? Pick one and list 3 facts about it.

http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html

9. What is Olympus Mons? What is Valles Marineris?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/happy-birthday-mro/

10. Look at thebest Mars Images. Which one is your favorite? Why?

Jupiter http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html

11. Jupiter is the largest planet. How many times bigger than the earth is it?

12. What is the composition of Jupiter?

13. What is the wind like on Jupiter?

14. What happens in the Great Red Spot?

15. How many moons does it have?


http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

16. What happened when Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 collided with Jupiter?

Saturn http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html

17. What are Saturn’s rings made out of?

18. If the density of water is 1 and the density of Saturn is .07, what would happen if you put Saturn in a
giant swimming pool?

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?SciencePageID=47

19. What is the Cassini Solstice Mission?

20. Explain two things that have been learned from this mission.

Uranus http://www.nineplanets.org/uranus.html

21. Who discovered Uranus? How was it found?

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&Display=Gallery

22. Look at the pictures of Uranus. What is unusual about its rings?

Neptune http://www.nineplanets.org/neptune.html

23. Why is Neptune blue?

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

24. What planets did the Voyager Spacecraft study? When did they leave? When did they arrive at these
planets? Where are they now?

Pluto
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/10/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/

Why is Pluto not considered a planet anymore? What is it now?

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