Gaseous Planets Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• dark : the great _ spot on neptune is actually a giant storm, larger than our planet earth!
• cold : the gas giants are so _ because they are so far away from the sun.
• water : saturn's biggest moon, titan, is the only place other than earth to contain stable _ .
• shepherd : there are also _ moons in saturn's rings, called that because of the way they herd the rings as if they were sheep.
• rock : saturn's rings are made up of dust, ice and _ .
• rings : scientists have recently discovered that like saturn, jupiter has _ , though they are very difficult to see. uranus also has been found to have these.
• sulfur : the jovian moon, io, has hot active volcanoes and smells like rotten eggs because of the chemical, _ , spewing into its atmosphere.
• cassini : _ is the name of the mission exploring saturn.
• thin : saturn's rings are sometimes so _ we cannot see them until saturn tilts at just the right angle, showing them to be very wide.
• saturn : the most famous planet in our solar system
• miranda : _ is a pretty small and pretty strange moon of uranus, as it seems to be pieced together from parts that don't fit, making its surface very rough.
• uranus : our "sleepy planet," because it rotates sideways as if its lying down
• methane : _ is the gas on both uranus & neptune that causes its pretty blue color.
• dense : saturn is the only planet in our solar system less _ than water.
• helium : jupiter, like the sun, is made up primarily of 2 gases: hydrogen & _ .
• twins : jupiter & saturn are thought of as _ planets.
• craters : the scientist who discovered uranus and his sister were honored by having several _ named after them, including one on our moon!
• largest : ganymede is jupiter's _ moon, and is the largest object in our solar system.
• nitrogen : geysers on triton are thought to spew out the gas _ , though scientists are still a little uncertain.
• geysers : triton is neptune's largest moon & is fascinating because it is filled with _ , holes in the ground that spew out hot water on earth.
• blue : the gas, methane, absorbs red light and reflects _ light.