Astronomy

Are we alone?

Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge
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These resources were originally presented in connection with videoconferences in 2005. They are now freely available to schools.

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(Original drawing by Danielle Stretch, University of Cambridge)

Project Work

What will your planet be like? Where will it be? Who will live there?

Find out about recent space missions, or plan your own

Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet

Estimate how many intelligent, communicating civilisations there might be in the Milky Way

What do you think it would be like to live somewhere else in the solar system?

What would you find if you travelled to another planet?

Addition Material

Answers to the questions in "Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet "

An introduction to Carolin Crawford's talk in the first videoconference and a survey of the solar system.

What conditions have created life as we know it on Earth?

How do the inner planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, match up to the conditions which we know have produced life on Earth?

Could there be life in the outer solar system?

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