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Life in the Solar System Will Mars Attack?
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Mars 1900
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Huygens - 1659 Herschel - 1784 De la Rue -1856
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NASA –Viking 1
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Mariner 4 - 1965 Viking Orbiter - 1976
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Life 1 2 3
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Arid as Sahara
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MI on Stone Mountain
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Meridiani Planum, Mars – NASA/JPL/Cornell University
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Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument
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Curiosity
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Europa
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Frozen-over Ocean
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Enceladus
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Geysers
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Titan
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Are there other solar systems? Known Planets: –In our Solar System: 8 –Outside our Solar System: 851 Known Planetary Systems: –Prior Sept. 1995: 1 (ours) –As of Nov 2012: 126 Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission
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The “Wobble”
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Planet Shadows
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HD 209458 Based on Doppler curve, knew when planet might pass in front of its star. Greg Henry (Tennessee State Univ.)
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Upsilon Andromedae Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission
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Kepler Mission
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Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission
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Savage et al. 2001 Hubble Space Telescope
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