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6th Grade Science

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Introduction

A team of scientists and developers will be preparing a Space Exploration to determine the possibility of developing a Vacation Space Module. One such module will be located near an inner planet and one near an outer planet. Data of various planets and their moons will be collected to determine an ideal location for new resort vacation sites. Your expertise and enthusiasm is needed.

Before you embark on your exploration, keep these things in mind. Favorable conditions for living things to survive on Earth include liquid water, suitable temperature range, and atmosphere. If Earth were hotter, water would always be a gas – water vapor. 

If Earth were colder, water would always be solid ice. Water on Earth exists as a solid, liquid, and a gas. Are these conditions necessary for life? Or are they just the conditions needed for living things on Earth?

Web Page created by Barbara Nelson, January 2009

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Arnett, Bill, "The Nine Planets." http://nineplanets.org. January 30, 2009

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm January 2009

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