Universe: Stars And Galaxies
Universe: Stars And Galaxies
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Author: Roger Freedman, Robert Geller, William J. Kaufmann
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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The reason for Mars being considered by science fiction movies rather than any other planets.

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The principle cause of our intense interest in Mars in the decades before the dawn of the space age was that     Answers: A. a few astronomers believed that they saw evidence of an intelligent civilization on Mars.   B. Mars has seasons just like the Earth and therefore should be inhabitable by humans.   C. Mars has an unusual surface color and global dust storms, creating strange weather patterns.   D. Mars has unusual orbital properties making our understanding of its motion around the Sun very difficult.
where do you think we should establish a colony first? In Mars or in Moon?
Which of the following seems least reasonable regarding life on Earth? Group of answer choices   There is much scientific evidence suggesting that all creatures living on Earth today appear to have evolved from a common ancestor.   Louis Pasteur discredited the concept of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that even bacteria and other microorganisms arise from parents resembling themselves.   There is ample physical evidence that the earliest life forms on Earth were multicellular creatures, perhaps resembling some of our primitive fish.   When the earth formed some 4.6 billion years ago, it was a lifeless, inhospitable place.   Before the mid-17th century, most people believed that God had created humankind and other higher organisms and that insects, frogs, and other small creatures could arise spontaneously in mud or decaying matter About billion years into its development, the Earth it was teeming with organisms resembling blue-green algae.
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