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Life in the Solar System Will Mars Attack?

Mars 1900

Huygens Herschel De la Rue -1856

NASA –Viking 1

Mariner Viking Orbiter

Life 1 2 3

Arid as Sahara

MI on Stone Mountain

Meridiani Planum, Mars – NASA/JPL/Cornell University

Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument

Curiosity

Europa

Frozen-over Ocean

Enceladus

Geysers

Titan

Are there other solar systems? Known Planets: –In our Solar System: 8 –Outside our Solar System: 851 Known Planetary Systems: –Prior Sept. 1995: 1 (ours) –As of Nov 2012: 126 Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission

The “Wobble”

Planet Shadows

HD Based on Doppler curve, knew when planet might pass in front of its star. Greg Henry (Tennessee State Univ.)

Upsilon Andromedae Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission

Kepler Mission

Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission

Savage et al Hubble Space Telescope