The Moons Of Our Solar System A Presentation by Nicholas
Harnish
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What is a moon? Can any moon in our solar system have
life?
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What is a Moon? A moon is a planets natural satellite. That
means it is not man made. A satellite is something that orbits
another object. That means it goes around another object. Moons are
solid objects.
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Moons come in different shapes and sizes. Some can be round and
others are more like the shape of an asteroid. The moons of Mars
are shaped more like asteroids. Mars
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There are over one hundred and fifty moons in our solar system.
This is a number that is up for debate because some people say that
a small 10x10 rock orbiting a planet can be considered a moon.
Moon?
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Can Any Moons in Our Solar System Have Life? W When I talk
about life Im not talking about little green aliens walking around
or people like us. I am talking about things like microorganisms.
Living things so small that they can only be seen using a
microscope. Some scientists believe that some moons in our solar
system have this kind of life but it has not been found yet. small
that they can only be seen using a microscope.
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On the Galilean moons of Jupiter, which were discovered by
Galileo Galilei in 1610, scientists believe there may be life. On
these moons there is water but it is ice because not much energy
from the sun reaches them. Scientists believe that life might exist
under the ice where there might be water. Scientists have
discovered that there is heat on these moons from friction caused
by Jupiters gravitational pull. The gravitational pull makes the
moons bulge causing friction. Which causes heat and volcanic
eruptions.
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Scientists think this heat can help things live beneath the
frozen oceans on these moons. They believe this because life on
Earth was discovered at the bottom of the ocean where the suns
energy could not reach. The water was heated by under water
volcanoes. Worms, clams, and shrimp were found.
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Some of the moons in our solar system Our Moon Neptune And
Triton Galilean Moons of Jupiter
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The End A Nick Harnish Production
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Where I got my info: National Audubon Society Pocket Guide
Planets and Their Moons by Text by Dr. Gary Mechler, with Dr.
Steven Kent Croft, Melinda Hutson, and Dr. Robert Marcialis, Alfred
A. Knopf, New York 1995 New Scientist.com, Space, Hundreds of tiny
moons may be orbiting Earth, by David Shiga, Jan 5, 2012
Wordpress.com, Astrobioloblog, Life in Our Solar System- Europa,
Ganymede, & Callisto, March 22, 2011 Image of Jupiters Moons,
DavidDarling.info/The Encylopedia of Science, The Encyclopedia of
Science, Jupiter MoonsDavidDarling.info/The Image of our Moon,
noao.edunoao.edu Image of Plute, nasa.gov, Pluto and Its Moons:
Charon, Nix, and Hydra, June 23, 2006nasa.gov Image of the Moons of
Mars, colonial.net, The Moons of Mars Image of Asteroids orbiting
Earth, Detiev van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library Image of Aliens,
Wordpress.com Image of Neptune and Triton, pannachapman.com, 2012,
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