LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS

Our class spent many weeks researching, planning, & writing to answer an inquiry question of their choice. Please enjoy their final published work!

Mrs. Montag's Class ~ 5th Grade Genius Hour Projects

temperature –– the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch photosynthesis –– the process by which green plants and some other

Traveling to an exoplanet or an exomoon is not something that is expected to occur anytime soon either, considering the massive distance between the extrasolar planets and the Earth as well as the time required to make such a trip with present-day

What is an extrasolar planet, better known as an exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet that orbits around a star outside of our solar system, or a star other than the Sun. An exomoon, a moon that orbits a star other than the Sun, may also be able to host

When the exoplanet Kepler-186f was discovered, it confirmed that planets the size of the Earth exist in the habitable zones of other stars. The definition of the habitable zone is “the orbital region around a star in which an Earth-like planet can possess

Another convenient thing about these exoplanets is that they are only about 21-22 light years (or 6.8 parsecs) away from Earth. It sounds like a lengthy distance, but it isn’t too much compared to the amount of space between the Earth and other

First of all, how was the Sun created? The Sun formed about 4.5 billion years ago due to a solar nebula, which is a humongous spinning cloud of gas and dust that resulted in Earth’s orbital star. When the Sun runs out of hydrogen and helium – two elements

Hall, Loura. "6 Technologies NASA is Advancing to Send Humans to Mars." July 20, 2020. NASA. April 11, 2022.

Life on a foreign planet is also influenced by its mass, or planet size, as well as the size of the star it orbits. If a planet is too large, its gravitational pull would be extremely strong, making it hard for you to walk or do anything on the planet.

Upgraded spacesuits are another basic necessity for traveling and living in space. Spacesuits are important because they help protect the person wearing the suit from being hit by a stray rock or small bits of space dust. They also provide key things that

Our planet Earth will not last forever, and neither will our Sun! However, space is humongous, so there is a possibility of other life. Once the Earth becomes inhabitable due to the Sun's death, how and where may we continue the existence of humanity?

Super-Earths superhabitable planet temperature the Sun

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