Wednesday, March 10, 2010

We read these articles, and discussed the likelihood of life on the moons mentioned:

1. Emily Lakdawalla on Titan ^[1]
2. Emily Lakdawalla on Enceladus ^[2]
3. Ted Stryk on Europa ^[3]

I handed out the homework: 2009_03_11 HW08 Space Mission ^[4] (Due 3/17/2010)

You turned in your Planetary Children’s Books

We discussed the dwarf planets – so you should know the basics of them.

We also discussed “Moons of Note” – go to http://www.nineplanets.org/ ^[5] or your book to check them out.

Moons of Note

• The Moon
• Phobos
• Deimos
• Io
• Europa
• Ganymede
• Callisto
• Pan
• Mimas
• Enceladus
• Titan
• Iapetus
• Miranda
• Triton (do not confuse with Titan!)
• Charon

Life

We discussed ALH84001:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/ALH84001_structures.jpg ^[6]

http://nmp.nasa.gov/ds2/images/alh84001.gif ^[7]

http://www.alicesastroinfo.com/2009/12/magnetotactic-bacteria-from-mars/ ^[8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7j67TABzE ^[9]