Title: Life on other Planets and Moons in the Solar System - Universe Guide
Headings: Life on other Planets and Moons in the Solar System
Life on other Planets and Moons in the Solar System
Contents
Introduction
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Panspermia
Mars
Asteroid Belt
Jupiter
Ganymede
Europa
Saturn
Titan
Enceladus
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Charon
Eris
Sedna
Conclusion
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Content: As mentioned previously, bacteria on Earth have been found in the most extreme of locations. Even though probes that are sent to outer space are sterilised to ensure that they don't contain hitch-hiking bacteria, it is not 100% fail proof and Earth bacteria could in the most extremely rare case survive on the planet. The planet has ice caps on its north and south poles, bacterial could be encased inside them. One theory is that life did take off on Mars but lost its ability to support life. Mars lost its atmosphere and scientists are looking into why. Ref: Time On Earth, we have a magnetic field that protects us from the Sun's radiation however on Mars, its shielding has disappeared and therefore advanced life would be killed off on the planet. There is a new race between the nations to get a community on Mars but we would need to build living quarters that would shield us from the Suns power, not an easy thing to do. Kim Stanley Robinson wrote about a trilogy of books (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) about setting up on Mars and terraforming the planet. Terraforming the planet would be expensive and whether it could actually be done would need to be answered.