"We are truly in the dawn of a new era in astronomy," says Dr. Alan P. Boss, a theoretical astronomer at the Carnegie Institute in Washington. "We will be finding many more planets in the next decade.".
As I'm sure many people know, we have recently come to a fairly shaky conclusion that life did exist on the planet Mars at one time since the creation of the universe, which happened billions of years ago. In the year 1996 an expedition to Antarctica recovered a single rock from the icy continent. Antarctica is the best place on Earth to collect pieces of meteors, asteroids, or other objects that have fallen from the sky, because it is an entire continent made up of ice and snow. Any rocks that are found must have only come from the sky. After very careful analysis, this recovered rock was decided to have come from our close-by planet Mars, because of an impact with a meteor with the red planet. After even further studying it was found that there were fossils of microscopic bacteria in the rock. In one sentence, a rock from Mars landed on Earth only to reveal that microscopic bacteria once lived on that, now assumed lifeless, planet. Scientists believe that this is indisputable proof that life exists outside our planet. Or does it? After all, this was a rock that was found on Earth, and may have picked up organic material in our atmosphere. .
Some people might wonder, why do we refer to extraterrestrials as a higher intelligence. What proof do we have that can show they are a higher intelligence, or if there are really even extraterrestrials at all. We usually think of extraterrestrials as little green men with big heads that visit or abduct people in their flying saucers (or U.F.O's), leaving behind not a single trace of evidence that we, as the people of Earth, know of. For all we know, the aliens can be in the form of a virus, a bacteria, or maybe just a type of plant. We as a people tend to think that they are the higher intelligence, if there is a "they," because they can visit us in their spaceships and send strange radio messages to us, which are both things that we can not do to them.
Is their life on other planets? ... The Meteor was from the planet Mars. ... However, they are also similar to other structures not related to living organisms. ... Pieces fell off this planet cause some material to fall to earth. ... So is their life on other planets? ...
Planet Earth by P. ... It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet. ... Page's poem "Planet Earth" for Dialogue Poetry. ... Among other honours, she has won the Governor General's Award for poetry for The Metal and the Flower (1954). ... The Winter 1996 number of The Malahat Review is a tribute to her life and work. ...
The study of space weather and weather on other planets provides scientists with information that provides a greater knowledge of how our planet works. ... The conditions on other planets tend to occur for extremely long periods of time, which allows scientists to compare and contrast their conditions with those on Earth (Britt). ... Space storms do affect Earth, just in less severe ways than other planets. ... The combination of those gases produced a thick atmosphere that would be similar to Earth's ("Weather, Climate, and Life on Mars: Frequently Asked Questions Answered"). ... Mars h...
There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. ... " It is the closest planet to the sun and therefore orbits faster than any other planet " (Thompson/Turk, 542, 1993). ... " More than any other planet in the solar system, Mars has characteristics that make it an Earth-like world "(Grolier, 1992). ... It is said that, " Mars remains the best candidate for life in the solar system outside of the Earth," and that is what makes Mars so interesting to scientists. ... The other three plan...
There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. ... Since it is the closest planet to the sun it orbits faster than any other planet. ... More than any other planet in the solar system, Mars has characteristics that make it an Earth-like world. ... It is said that, Mars remains the best candidate for life in the solar system outside of the Earth, and that is what makes Mars so interesting to scientists. ... The other three planets are not as well known as these six are. ...
There are no other planets out there, just stars, quasars, nebulas and so on. ... How could life forms survive with two suns rotating around a planet, also with the suns so close to the planet? ... Scientists also have no physical proof that there is other life out there in the Universe. ... So as you can see, there is no life out there other than our own. ... Until you see an alien mopping your floor, there is no life out there other than our own!...
Inner Planets Mercury It is the planet closest to the sun. ... This planet has no moon. ... Other than the sun and moon, Venus is the brightest object in the sky. ... It is the only known planet to contain life, even though other planets have atmospheres and water. Earth can support life because it has oxygen in its atmosphere. ...
Extrasolar Planets The universe is composed of many galaxies, planets, an abundant amount of stars, and matter. ... An extrasolar planet is a planet around other stars, and these planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. One can see these planets through powerful telescopes. ... An observed Doppler-shift could be produced either by a low mass planet or by a bigger planet. Even with precise estimates, many observers still would not know whether the planet could have life or not. ...
By driving cars, using electricity for different kind of machines or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, those are the reasons that release carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases into the atmosphere. ... The planet was normal century ago until humans start taking advantage of it. ... Also, humans cause pollution in the air and it harmful to the planet. ... Without the atmosphere it would be no life on this planet. ... We are getting changes in weather, which effects life on planet. ...
