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Activity 1
Activity 1
Crash Landing
Directions: A meteoroid has hit your spaceship! This happened while you are passing through a
stellar system with one (1) star and seven (7) planets, some of which has moons.
You are running out of fuel, so you need to crash land on one of the planets. Listed
below are the planets and their characteristics. Which of these planets should be
your choice for crash landing? Support your answer. Write your answer on your
Earth Science Notebook.
Planet 3 Planet 6
Mass: 1 (same size as earth) Gas giant with four large, rocky satellites
Tectonics: Active volcanoes and seismic (moons)
activity detected Moons have no appreciable atmosphere
Atmosphere: CO2, H2O(g), O2 Ice detectable on one
Temperature: 50˚C
Description: Liquid water, oceans cover much
of the surface, volcanic island chains
Planet 7 (furthest from star)
Gas giant with two large moons
Moon 1: An atmosphere which is full of
methane gas with very high pressure to
maintain a methane ocean
Temperature: 2˚C
Moon 2: Covered in water ice, ice appears,
cracked and refrozen in parts, indicating a
potential liquid ocean underneath surface
Temperature: 1`˚C