Solar System Walk

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Step 1: Watch the video
Step 2: Complete the reading about models
Step 3: Choose a site for your model
Step 4: Determine your model size by measuring the distance you have available to build your model
Step 5: Scale your model by determining the scaling factor
Step 6: Build your model
Step 7: Record your findings in the report.

https://vimeo.com/139407849?embedded=true

Habitability Lab

A planet’s habitability, or ability to harbor life, results from a complex network of interactions between the planet itself, the system it’s a part of, and the star it orbits. The standard definition for a habitable planet is one that can sustain life for a significant period of time. As far as researchers know, this requires a planet to have liquid water. To detect this water from space, it must be on the planet’s surface. The region around a star where liquid surface water can exist on a planet’s surface is called the “habitable zone.” However, this definition is confined to our understanding of current and past life on Earth and the environments present on other planets. As researchers learn more and discover new environments in which life can sustain itself, the requirements for life on other planets may be redefined.
Different types of planets may drive processes that help or hinder habitability in different ways. For example, planets orbiting low-mass stars in the habitable zone may be tidally locked, with only one hemisphere facing the star at all times. Some planets may be limited to only periodic or local habitable regions on the surface if, e.g., they experience periodic global glaciations or are mostly desiccated. In order to understand the full range of planetary environments that could support life and generate detectable biosignatures, we require more detailed and complete models of diverse planetary conditions. In particular, understanding the processes that can maintain or lead to the loss of habitability on a planet requires the use of multiple coupled models that can examine these processes in detail, especially at the boundaries where these processes intersect each other
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/search-for-life/habita…
https://astro.unl.edu/nativeapps/
Go to the link and select “Native aps” from the black menu bar near the top of the screen (this will look the same as the original page, but for some reason you can download from this approach!). Download the NAAP aps for your operating system and then navitate to the Habitability lab. You will be using the Circumstellar Habitabile Zone simulator to explore the possible habitable zone for the Sun and other star systems and their planets.

Mars exploring

Read the introductory information. In this lab it is particularly important that you go through the Tutorial before doing the experiment. Follow instructions in the report document. Enter your responses into purple “Click or tap here to enter text” fields. You will be instructed to use Excel simulator.

Solar Syst. Formation

Begin with your textbook from lecture, or at the following website for an overview of the nebular theory, the theory of how the sun and its planets formed.
http://www.windows2universe.org/our_solar_system/f…
(A more detailed version is here http://www.windows2universe.org/cool_stuff/tour_evolution_ss_1.html)
The basic premises of solar system formation are these:
1. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust collapsed with the gravitational influence of many gas and dust particles pulling cool gas and dust ever closer together
2. As the cloud collapsed it flattened, heated and began to spin faster and flatten
3. The hot gas that eventually became the Sun was concentrated in the center of the cloud of dust and gas.
3. Depending on the temperature at various distance from the center, metals, rock and hydrogen compounds could condense.
4. Small clumps of material formed and gradually stuck together accreting into planetesimals.
5. The planetesimals merged eventually forming planets.
6. Because hydrogen compounds could only condense beyond the “frost line”, the inner, terrestrial planets are smaller and mostly made of rock and metal while the gas giant planets contain metals, rocks and abundant ice.
7. Being farther from the sun and more massive, gas giants could capture and retain H and He and build extensive atmospheres
8. Some “leftover” planetesimals became today’s asteroids (rocky) or comets (icy).
9. The young sun developed a strong solar wind which blew remaining dust and gas from the solar system.

Planetary Atmospheres

Read the introductory information in the Word document.
Follow instructions in the report document.
Enter your responses into purple “Click or tap here to enter text” fields.
You will be instructed to use Excel worksheet
“Video link”

Explore the moon and its phases

Complete Attachment
Step 1: Read the material on the website posted under “Pre-lab activity”. Take notes while reading and try to get as much information as possible about the moon.
Step 2: Perform the activities in the actual lab exercise and record your results in the answer sheet
Step 3: Submit your report
link might help;
https://solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm

Stellarium

The lab consists of the following tasks:
Step 1: Download “Stellarium” from www.stellarium.org
Step 2: Install Stellarium on your computer
Step 3: Familiarize yourself with the software. You can also look up the user guide.
Step 4: Read the lab handout and prepare your investigation
Step 5: Answer all questions to the three parts in the report.

Explore the internet (or books or magazines) to find your favorite image related to astrobiology.

Explore the internet (or books or magazines) to find your favorite image related to astrobiology. Then:
Write a short paragraph (3-4 sentences) stating the science content of the image. Specifically, explain (i) what the image is about, and (ii) how the image is connected to astrobiology (not just astronomy or biology). How is it related to what we’ve been learning in this course? If it is an astronomy image, like a Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy or nebula, make sure you explain the connection to life: How is the image related to the origin, evolution, or search for life? If it only related to astronomy and does not have a clear and direct connection with biology, then it will not earn full credit.
Then in a second paragraph, very briefly explain why you chose the image (2-3 sentences is fine).
Obviously, include the image in your assignment (put it at the start). Be sure to fully cite the source of the image (URL) and give proper credit to whoever created the image. Put this right at the top of your homework. Be sure to run a spelling checker on you document to make sure you don’t lose points for typos and dumb things like that.

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Funding Proposal

Your Final Mission Report will follow the same format as a “mission funding proposal” to NASA.Ignore the fact that you have already been awarded a budget and have completed a design.You are the Principle Investigator for this funding proposal and the template listed below iswhat you will present to NASA for the funding for your mission