Update #3

This will be a short post because these last weeks were pretty boring. We continued working on the project, and made steady progress. We started hypothesizing on what life could be like, finding several species on Earth that have traits which are beneficial to survival on other planets. There is a surprising variety of traits on Earth that would allow organisms to survive in extreme environments like other planets.

What Are Aliens Project Update #2

After a lack of information, confusing sources, and many math mistakes, we finally overcame our first roadblock: calculating radiation and finding the limit for surviving radiation. Life on Mars is a lot more complicated that I thought. We also began more research on the moon Europa, and started hypothesizing what life on those places might be like. We didn't get too much else done, mostly because of the major obstacle of radiation, so this update is going to be short. We hope you continue to follow our progress.

What Are Aliens Project Update #1

These past two weeks have been fairly productive. We have been researching 3 places in our solar system suspected to contain water,  Mars, Europa, and Titan. But while Titan has water, it is all frozen in ice due to the planet's cold temperature. Life on Titan would have to be very different from that on Earth, or have some way to get water from the ice. Mars is constantly being hit by radiation due to a lack of a magnetic field. We have not determined if it is lethal, because it has been difficult to find the radiation tolerance of humans. We are still researching Europa. This is what we have accomplished these past two weeks, and we hope you continue to follow our progress.

What Are Aliens Project

In our class, we have started a project where we have 20% of class time, or every Monday, to research a topic that we are interested in. My partner and I have decided to research how aliens could be adapted to survive on different planets and moons. Our goal is to examine these planets and determine what, if any, life is there, and how the different species may interact. Every week, we will look at the physical features of different planets, and compare them to locations on Earth and the species that live in those locations.  The first step will be to look at planets in our solar system, like Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa, which are suspected to either have life or once have had life on them. We hope you enjoy our project, and continue to follow our progress.