Wednesday, September 7, 2016

HW CH1 AST 112

AST CH1 Questions

2. For one thing, we can actually see other planets and moons that could be habitable, whereas in the past we could not even see them. Secondly, we have a better understanding of life, and what conditions must be in place to harvest life. Because we know conditions for life and we can observe more and more planets with these potential conditions, we can actually reasonably say life outside of Earth is possible.

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1.       Mars because we can observe evidence of dried up water canals that could have harvested life in the past. Also there are significant amounts of water ice currently.
2.       Europa because it has deep oceans of liquid water under icy crust.
3.       Ganymede and Callisto because they show evidence of subsurface oceans.
4.       Titan because it has a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane.
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