Interstellar Crash LandingSuppose yourselves in an interstellar voyage. Your spaceship suffers engine trouble and will be forced to land. Fortunately you are passing through the Puhon System, which is composed of a sun-like star surrounded by six planets, some of which have moons .The profiles of planets of the Puhon System are listed below. You are to decide the best place to land your ship.Write down on the box on page 10 your choice planet. Explain your chosen planet and reason out why the other planet is not habitable. Table 1.1. Puhon SystemPlanet 1 (closest the star)Planet 4Mass: 1.5 (Earth = 1)Mass: 1.5Tectonics: Active volcanoes and seismic Tectonics: Active volcanoes andactivity detected.seismic activity detected.Atmosphere: CO2, N, and H20 AverageTemperature: 651 °CAtmosphere: N, O2, and ozone layerAverage Temperature: 2 °CDescription: Thick clouds surround theDescription: Cold oceans, coveredplanet. No surface is visible through the with ice along much of the globe.clouds.Some open water round equator.Planet 2Planet 5Mass: 0.5Gas Giant with one large moon.Tectonics: No activity detected.Atmosphere: Thin CO2Moon: Sulfur dioxide (SO2) atmosphere.Many volcanoes and hot springs onatmosphere detected.surface. Temperatures in hot spots canbe up to 600 °C.Other spots away from volcanic heat canAverage Temperature: 10 °CDescription: Polar ice caps, dryriverbeds, and many craters can beget as low in temperature as 145 °Cseen from orbit.Planet 3|Planet 6Mass: 1Gas giant with four large, rockyTectonics: Active volcanoes andsatellites (moons). Moons have noseismic activity detected.appreciable atmosphere. IceAtmosphere: CO2, H,Odetectable on one.Temperature: 30 °CDescription: Liquid water oceans covermuch of the surface. Volcanic islandchains make up most of the dry land.Source: http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/planetary/sample/lesson5/pdf/5_3_1sas_crashland.pdf(2014)

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Suppose yourselves in an interstellar voyage. Your spaceship suffers engine
trouble and will be forced to land. Fortunately you are passing through the Puhon
System, which is composed of a sun-like star surrounded by six planets, some of which
have moons .
The profiles of planets of the Puhon System are listed below. You are to decide
the best place to land your ship.
Write down on the box on page 10 your choice planet. Explain your chosen
planet and reason out why the other planet is not habitable.