Determining Habitability
What is necessary to keep liquid water from vaporizing off a planet's surface?
What is Atmosphere?
A Small fossil that makes "living rocks" similar to modern day coral
What is Stromatolites?
The studying how how light waves warp
What is Gravitation Microlensing?
Neccesary for any reaction, even organic
What is Some form of energy
A place underwater that provides heat and "chemical soup"
What is hydrothermal vents?
The distance a planet must be from it's sun to sustain liquid water?
What is √L x 0.7 to √L x 1.5?
Chemical structures that are hard to explain without life
Complex carbon molecules
The measurement of the "wobble" a planet causes a star
What is Radial Velocity?
An essential solvent to facilitate life
What is Water?
One of Jupiter's moons known for it's icy crust and liquid water below, that freely sends samples out into the universe and feeds Saturn's rings
What is Enceladus?
How large or small must a planet be
What is large enough to have the required gravity to keep water on it's surface but small enough to prevent extreme pressures.
A gas that can be found in the atmosphere?
What is Methane or oxygen?
Seeing planets with a telescope, typically gas giants or self illuminating planets
What is Direct Imaging?
An important element that all life as we know it needs for structure
What is Carbon?
What is a Lake Bed?
An orbit that makes it hard to sustain life
What is tidally locked?
A chemical and color hard to be found without life
What is green chlorophyll?
Method used that measures the shadows that pass in front of stars
What is the Transit Method?
A surface that helps facilitate life by providing building blocks and a place to anchor on
What is minerals?
Darwin's warm little pond that life may have originated in
Hint: think sulfur!
What is Hot Springs?