Voyager 1 is the farthest artificial object from Earth, far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. In what year was it launched?
1988
1970
2003
1977
Which object has the tallest mountain in the Solar System?
Earth
Venus
Mars
Pluto
What is the name of small rocky objects without atmospheres, left over from the formation of the solar system?
Asteroids
Meteors
Moons
Comets
How many planets in the Solar System have rings?
5
2
4
3
What is the name of the donut shaped cloud of icy bodies just beyond the orbit of Neptune?
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper belt
Oort Cloud
Trojan Asteroids
Which planet has two small, potato-shaped moons?
Neptune
Venus
Mars
Earth
What is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System?
Mars
Io
Saturn
Earth
Of the four main geologic processes that shape the surfaces of planets and moons, which is most common?
Meteorite Impacts
Volcanism
Plate Tectonics
Erosion
Which is the most explored body in the Solar System (other than Earth and Earth’s moon)?
Saturn
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
What spacecraft visited the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015?
New Horizons
Curiosity Rover
Cassini-Huygens
Voyager 2
Which object is thought to have formed from a chunk torn off Earth during a massive collision between Earth and another body in the early Solar System?
Mars
The Moon
Mercury
Asteroid Belt
What is the name of the dwarf planet located in the orbit between Mars and Jupiter?
Pluto
Mercury
Titan
Ceres
What is the hottest object in the Solar System other than the Sun?
Mercury
Jupiter
Earth
Venus
What is the only moon in the Solar System that has a magnetic field (much like planets such as Earth)?
The Moon (moon of Earth)
Titan (Moon of Saturn)
Callisto (Moon of Jupiter)
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter)
Which moon of Saturn is known for having icy geysers that spray liquid water high into space?
Hyperion
Enceladus
Titan
Iapetus
How many planets are so-called “gas giants” because they have enormous atmospheres and no real solid surface?
4
3
1
2
On what planet did the Perseverance Rover land on in February 2021?
Mars
Venus
Neptune
Mercury
Which planet is rotated onto its side, probably due to a massive collision during its formation that tipped it over?
Uranus
Earth
Venus
Saturn
Which object is known for having a giant red spot on its surface, which is actually a centuries old hurricane?
Earth
Jupiter
The Sun
Venus
Which body has the largest cliff in the Solar System? (Hint: it is so small, a rock would take 10 minutes to fall to the bottom.)
Miranda (moon of Uranus)
Mars
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter)
Earth
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