Title: What Makes A Planet Habitable? What Does It Need To Sustain Life?
Headings: What Makes A Planet Habitable?
What Makes A Planet Habitable?
What Are the Factors that Make the Planet Habitable?
Taking Cues from Earth
Location in Habitable Zone (HZ)
Stability of Stars
Mass of the Planetary Body
Rotation and Revolution
A Molten Core
Holding an Atmosphere
Are there more habitable planets?
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Content: It should have a molten core. It should hold an atmosphere. In the recent years, there has been a great deal of talk about finding liquid water on Mars and the possibility of life existing on the Red Planet. All this coverage has resulted in a lot of questions being raised for people always staring out into space, including a few interesting ones. For example, is the existence of water the only condition that needs to be present on a planet in order to host life? To better answer that question, let’s look at the various factors that make a planet habitable. Taking Cues from Earth
As of now, we do not have any concrete proof of the existence of life anywhere else in the universe. Therefore, in order to establish the criteria of habitability of a planet (or a natural satellite), the conditions that support life on Earth also need to be extrapolated for other celestial objects. In other words, since we haven’t found proof of life anywhere else, the basic conditions that support life on Earth can be taken as a benchmark for the sustenance of life on any planet. There are a number of conditions that a celestial body must fulfill in order to support life.