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The Solar System

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A few of the words

COMET
Comets are made of ice, dust, and rocky material left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. As one nears the sun, solar heat vaporizes the ice and creates the glowing tail we see from Earth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SATURN
Saturn's iconic rings are made mostly of ice and rock and span up to 282,000 miles across, yet in places they are less than 30 feet thick.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ECLIPSE
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves directly between Earth and the sun, briefly turning day into an eerie twilight and revealing the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ASTEROID
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains millions of rocky objects, but if all of them were gathered together they would form a body smaller than Earth's moon.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Solar System: a free large-print word search

Solar system word search, free and large-print, drift through planets, moons, comets, orbits, and the star at the heart of it all.

About The Solar System

Our solar system stretches roughly 4.5 billion miles from the sun to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, yet nearly all of its mass is concentrated in the sun itself. Eight planets trace their patient orbits through this vast neighborhood, accompanied by moons, asteroids, and the occasional icy comet arcing in from the dark. On clear nights, that ancient light reaches right down to Earth, a reminder that every glance upward is also a glance back in time.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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