Exploring the Solar System by Zareen Levien

Exoplanet Discoveries: Beyond Our Solar System

zap9 — 2024-12-16 21:10:42 UTC

Discover the most recent exoplanet findings that expand our understanding of potential habitable zones beyond our solar system.

Discussion Questions:
1. What characteristics of these exoplanets suggest they could support life?
2. How do these discoveries alter our approach to searching for extraterrestrial life?

3. What are biosignatures or technosignatures?

Instructions

zap9 — 2024-12-16 21:10:42 UTC

First watch the Solar System 101 video to get started.
Then, choose one of the 3 videos below to watch.
Comment with your answers to the discussion question.
Add a new post below with 3 new things you learned and 3 questions you have. (Your new post can be audio, video or written.)
BONUS: Add in additional links to more information about the solar system!

Solar System 101

zap9 — 2024-12-16 22:20:45 UTC

1) Eight Wonders of Our Solar System

zap9 — 2024-12-17 04:21:52 UTC

Discover the most memorable events in the history of our solar system. Travel to the surface of these dynamic worlds to witness the moments of high drama that uniquely shaped each one.

Discussion Questions:
1. Which of these wonders do you find most fascinating and why?
2. How do these wonders provide insights into the history of the solar system?
3. What technologies are used to study these wonders?

2) Universe: Secrets of the Sun

zap9 — 2024-12-17 04:26:10 UTC

It is a fireball in the sky, a bubbling, boiling, kinetic sphere of white-hot plasma, exploding and erupting.

Discussion Questions:
1. How does the sun influence the solar system?
2. What are the different layers of the sun and their functions?
3. Describe some of the sun's most dynamic eruptions and their effects on Earth.