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1 Life in the Solar System Will Mars Attack?

2 Mars 1900

3 Huygens - 1659 Herschel - 1784 De la Rue -1856

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6 NASA –Viking 1

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8 Mariner 4 - 1965 Viking Orbiter - 1976

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12 Life 1 2 3

13 Arid as Sahara

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17 MI on Stone Mountain

18 Meridiani Planum, Mars – NASA/JPL/Cornell University

19 Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument

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21 Curiosity

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26 Europa

27 Frozen-over Ocean

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30 Enceladus

31 Geysers

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33 Titan

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36 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

37 The “Wobble”

38 Planet Shadows

39 HD 209458 Based on Doppler curve, knew when planet might pass in front of its star. Greg Henry (Tennessee State Univ.)

40 Upsilon Andromedae Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission

41 Kepler Mission

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45 Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission

46 Savage et al. 2001 Hubble Space Telescope


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