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Life in the Cosmos

Questions regarding the search for life away from Earth
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Last updated: July 25, 2019
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To the nearest billion years, how old is the Sun?
4.6 Billion Years
What characteristic allows TItan to have an atmosphere whereas the similarly sized Mercury does not?
tempertaure (Titan is cooler)
The K-T boundary separates which two periods in Earth's history?
Cretaceous and Tertiary
What is a small particle from a coment or asteroid that orbits the Sun?
Meteoroid
Jovian moons are typically made of rock and ---
ice
Where does the water that formed many of the erosion features seen on Mars appear to have originated?
from beneath the surface of the planet
Where is the Sun within the Milky Way Galaxy?
Orion Arm (within the disk)
What is the approximate lifetime of the Sun (in billions of years)?
10 Billion Years
Which terrestrial planet(s) other than Earth have magnetic fields?
Mercury
The total mass of all existing asteroids is 1/--- of that of the Earth
1000
Less massive stars have longer/shorter/similar lifetimes to more massive stars?
longer
What is an object composed mainly of dust and ice that comes from the outer solar system towards the Sun?
comet
An organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions is named an ...
Extremophile
Life probably did not originate on the land surface because of the lack of the --- Layer
Ozone
What must be reduced in the disk around the forming Sun for planets to form?
Turbulence
An Object with insufficient mass to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores is a ...
Brown Dwarf
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere of Titan?
Nitrogen
Layers of sediment that once contained colonies of ancient microbes are called
Stromatolites
For the transit of an extrasolar planet to be observed, the orbital plane of the planet has to be aligned along ...
our line of sight
The point in a solar system beyond which that hydrogen compounds condense into solid ice grains is known as ...
ice line
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