Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Ian Morison
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy
Gresham College
Star-stuff
Ring
Nebula
M1
The
Crab
Nebula
Elsewhere in our own Solar
System
We could find other simple life-forms
here.
Canals on
Mars?
The Face on Mars!
Valleys and Volcanoes
Olympus Mons
Islands and
Channels
Viking on Mars
• Two Viking Spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976 to search
for evidence of life.
Spirit and Opportunity
Martian Dust Devils
Phoenix Lander
Jupiter
4 major moons – discovered
by Galileo
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Io
Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Breaking up of the surface
• Icebergs!
Water Plumes!
Searching for Life!
Finding Evidence of Simple Life
on other Planets
Can we see any exo-planets?
Its formation
gave us a
thinner crust.
• Recycling of CO2
COMETS
Fraction inhabited by intelligent
beings
• One needs, we believe,
a very long time to
allow life to evolve.
• Really difficult to
estimate how often a
planet will have a
temperate climate for
long enough
Perhaps our human race is rather
special.