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1 Are We Alone? The Search for Other Earths Lawrence Rudnick, Univ. of MN Prior Lake Rotary: Nov. 2009

2 Are We Alone? Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Extremophiles Search for Other Planets

3 Our 5 billion year old story …

4 First, looking close to home… Europa Enceladus

5 Out to the stars …

6 What we see… Artist’s conception Early solar system Pre-planetary Disks

7 On to Planets… Direct imaging Transit Doppler shifts

8 Direct imaging

9 Transit CoRot (ESA)

10 Kepler (NASA)

11 Doppler

12 Terrestrial Planet Finder (coronagraph) Terrestrial Planet Finder (interferometer) Space Interferometry Mission

13 Being part of the adventure… Discovering the stories Sharing the stories Minnesota Planetarium and Space Discovery Center Large Binocular Telescope Mount Graham, Arizona

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15 Minnesota Planetarium and Space Discovery Center MAKE CONTACT www.mplanetarium.org

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