Imagine yourselves on an interstellar voyage. Unfortunately, your spaceship suffers mechanical problems and is forced to land. Luckily, you are passing through the Nognog System, which is composed of a sun-like star surrounded by seven planets, some of which have moons. The profiles of planets and moons of the Nognog System are listed in Table 2. You are to decide the best place to land the spaceship. Instruction: Which of these planets should be your choice for crash landing? Support your answer. Explain also why other planets cannot be a suitable place to take refuge. Use the given matrix on the “Factors that Make a Planet Habitable” to identify which planet has the most habitable environment to live in and which is not. G. Planet 7 (furthest from the star) Gas giant with two large moons. Moon 1: Thick methane atmosphere with pressure high enough to keep a potential methane ocean liquid underneath. Temperature: -200 degrees Celcius Moon 2: Covered in water ice. Ice appears cracked and re-frozen in parts, indicating a potential liquid ocean underneath. Surface temperature -100 degrees Celcius.

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Imagine yourselves on an interstellar voyage. Unfortunately, your spaceship suffers mechanical problems and is forced to land. Luckily, you are passing through the Nognog System, which is composed of a sun-like star surrounded by seven planets, some of which have moons. The profiles of planets and moons of the Nognog System are listed in Table 2. You are to decide the best place to land the spaceship.

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  1. Which of these planets should be your choice for crash landing? Support your answer. Explain also why other planets cannot be a suitable place to take refuge.
  2. Use the given matrix on the “Factors that Make a Planet Habitable” to identify which planet has the most habitable environment to live in and which is not.

G. Planet 7 (furthest from the star) Gas giant with two large moons. Moon 1: Thick methane atmosphere with pressure high enough to keep a potential methane ocean liquid underneath. Temperature: -200 degrees Celcius Moon 2: Covered in water ice. Ice appears cracked and re-frozen in parts, indicating a potential liquid ocean underneath. Surface temperature -100 degrees Celcius.

 

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