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Ep348: Space Trivia · Kidcast Daily

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  Hit play it's trivia time Gather round friends in the lines for
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  space books, movies 2 science facts coming at you.
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  Hey kid cast daily trivia time shout your answer let it shine
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  guess it grab it score your points laugh and learn in every
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  Join kid cast daily. Here we go.
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  Ready. Set your brains will.
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  Good day knowledge Adventures. Welcome to Kick Ass Daily, where
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  every episode takes you on a journey through sports, science,
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  history, and all the fascinating corners of our world.
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  Today we are blasting off into space trivia with a mix of easy,
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  medium, and tricky questions. Keep your ears open, take a
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  breath, and get ready to think fast.
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  After each question there will be a pause so you can guess
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  before the answer arrives. First up, a warm up to get us
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  moving. Which planet is closest to the
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  Sun? The answer is Mercury.
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  It orbits the sun in about 88 Earth days and has no moons.
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  Here comes a twisty one. Which planet is the hottest on
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  average even though it is not the closest to the sun?
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  The answer is Venus. It's thick atmosphere traps
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  heat, creating surface temperatures hot enough to melt
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  lead, and it has crushing air pressure at the ground.
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  Let's talk about time. Which planet has a day that is
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  longer than its year? Clue.
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  It spins very slowly. The answer is Venus.
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  It rotates once in about 243 Earth days, but orbits the sun
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  in about 225 Earth days. Ready for a moon mystery?
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  Which moon of Jupiter is famous for having a salty ocean under
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  its icy surface? Clue Scientists study its cracks
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  and ridges. The answer is Europa.
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  Evidence from spacecraft shows a global ocean beneath ice, and
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  the surface has few craters, suggesting active geology.
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  Now for a volcano suppolative. What is the largest volcano in
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  the solar system? Clue It is on a planet with
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  giant canyons. The answer is Olympus Mons on
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  Mars. It is a shield volcano about 22
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  kilometers high and it spans roughly the size of the state of
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  Arizona. Let's try a speed fact.
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  How long does light from the sun take to reach Earth?
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  Clue answer in minutes. The answer is about 8 minutes
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  and 20 seconds. Light travels at about 300,000
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  kilometers per second and Earth is about 150 million kilometers
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  from the sun on average. Here is a ringed Riddle.
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  Which planet has rings that are mostly made of ice and rock and
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  are the most famous in our sky? The answer is Saturn.
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  It's rings spread over a huge area but are very thin and the
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  planet has more than 80 known moons.
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  Big storms Time. Which planet has a storm called
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  the Great Red Spot that has lasted for centuries?
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  The answer is Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is a giant
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  storm, wider than Earth, and it has been observed for at least
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  350 years. Dive into deep cold.
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  Which planet has the strongest winds in the solar system,
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  reaching over 1500 kilometers per hour?
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  The answer is Neptune. It's winds race around the
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  planet at extreme speeds, and Neptune orbits so far from the
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  Sun that one year there lasts about 165 Earth years.
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  Ready for an orbit puzzle? What do we call the path a
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  spacecraft uses to loop around Earth many times while staying
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  in space? Clue.
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  This is where the International Space Station travels.
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  The answer is low Earth orbit. The International Space Station
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  circles Earth about every 90 minutes at roughly 400
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  kilometers up. Let's think density.
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  Which planet could float in water if you had a giant enough
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  bathtub? Because its average density is
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  lower than water, the answer is Saturn.
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  Its average density is about 0.69g per cubic centimeter,
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  which is less than liquid water. Comic country time.
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  What is the name of the distant region beyond the planets where
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  many icy bodies orbit the sun, including Pluto and Eris?
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  The answer is the Kuiper Belt. It starts just beyond Neptune
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  and contains many dwarf planets and small icy worlds ready for
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  geysers in space. Which tiny moon of Saturn shoots
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  plumes of water vapor and ice from cracks near its South Pole?
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  Clue it is very bright. The answer is Enceladus.
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  Cassini spacecraft images showed fountains from tiger stripe
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  fractures and data suggest a global subsurface ocean.
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  Here is a star sized dumper. What do we call the end stage of
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  a very massive star that collapses into a point with
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  gravity so strong that not even light can escape?
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  Clue. It is not a star you can see
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  directly. The answer is a black hole.
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  The Milky Way has a super massive one at its center called
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  Sagittarius, A asterisk with a mass about four million times
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  that of the Sun Galaxy Time. What Galaxy do we live in?
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  Clue. Its name includes a type of
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  sweet food you may have seen in a store.
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  The answer is the Milky Way. It is a barred spiral Galaxy
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  with hundreds of billions of stars, and our sun sits in one
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  of its spiral arms. Exoplanet count Coming up What
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  do we call planets that orbit stars beyond our sun?
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  Clue Telescopes like Kepler helped find many.
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  The answer is exoplanets. Astronomers have confirmed
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  thousands, and some are in the habitable zones of their stars.
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  Here is a tricky calendar question.
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  Which planet has the shortest year around the sun?
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  Clue Think small and close. The answer is Mercury.
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  It completes one orbit in just 88 Earth days, which is less
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  than three Earth months. Let's go super cold.
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  Which dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt has a heart-shaped region
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  of nitrogen I seen by the New Horizon spacecraft?
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  The answer is Pluto. The region is called Tomba Regio
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  and the mission flew by in 2015, sending back detailed images
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  ready for rocket history. How many human made spacecraft
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  have traveled so far that they are on paths to leave or have
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  left the region dominated by the sun's solar wind called the
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  heliosphere? Clue.
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  It is more than three and less than 6.
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  The answer is five. They are Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11,
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  Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.
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  Let's talk tides and gravity. Which force keeps planets in
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  orbit around the sun and holds moons around planets?
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  Clue. It also makes objects fall on
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  Earth. The answer is gravity.
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  It is the attraction between masses, and it sets the paths of
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  everything from satellites to galaxies.
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  Observation time. What do we call the curved path
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  sunlight takes when it bends, passing near massive objects,
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  letting astronomers see distant galaxies more clearly?
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  Clue. It uses mass as a lens.
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  The answer is gravitational lensing.
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  It happens because mass warp space, and it lets telescopes
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  study very faint, faraway objects.
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  Meteor Watch What is the correct order for a space rock from
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  space to ground, Object in space, then streak in the sky,
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  then rock on the ground. Clue 3 terms The answer is
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  meteoroid, Meteor, meteorite. A meteoroid is the small rock in
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  space, A meteor is the glowing streak, and a meteorite is what
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  reaches the ground. Time for a scale check.
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  What is the approximate number of Earths that could fit inside
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  the sun? By volume clue, it is more than
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  1000. The answer is about 1,000,000.
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  The Sun's diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers, and it
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  contains more than 99% of the mass of the solar system's
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  planets combined. Let's finish with a dazzling
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  destination. Which planet has a giant Canyon
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  system called Vayas Marineris that stretches over 4000
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  kilometers? Clue.
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  The same planet hosts the largest volcano.
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  The answer is Mars Vias Marinaris is over 200 kilometers
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  wide in places and up to 7 kilometers deep.
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  Now for today's super challenge tune for top tier space fans.
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  What is the name of the boundary around a black hole where the
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  escape speed equals the speed of light?
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  Clue. It is also called the point of
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  no return. The answer is the event horizon.
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  It marks the limit where nothing, not even light, can get
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  out, and it defines the observable edge of a black hole.
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  That is our cosmic quiz for today.
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  If you got a few, great job. If you got many excellent work,
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  keep looking up, keep asking precise questions and join me
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  next time for more puzzles from our amazing universe.
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