Monday, February 10, 2014

SUPER-HABITABILITY and SUPER-EARTH's

Super Habitability is a new term coined in recent times after the inception of a race to find Earth-like planets in a habitable zone, which is supposedly the best placement of a planet in its Star-System to be able to sustain LIFE. Super Habitability OR Super habitable zone is a habitable zone but provides even better chances for the planets placed in those pockets to flourish with Life when compared to our very own Earth i.e with Earth as a benchmark and such planets are considered Super-Earth's. Well, no one has yet answered "how does these Super-Earth's vary from our Planet?", but it is upto the speculation of the intellectuals in the respective field of study and also at the same time it is upto the imagination of the Art community around the world let it be through Writing, Painting and Film-Making. I wanted to chance upon this piece of information i got from NatGeo and put my imagination at work. Here how it goes: In the palindrome year of 2112, a group of space explorers from planet Earth head towards third nearest Super-Earth which was found by the Jame-Webb Space Telescope back in 2019, which is right after one year of operations carried out by the telescope. Although the first two nearest Super-Earth's were explorable, International Space Research Center has suggested that the third one to be explored first due to the fact that they received some radio signals from the planet which were not possible to occur in natural conditions which resembled the WOW signal observed by scientists on Earth back in 1977. The team of explorers approach the new planet in a distant star-system and find stunning similarities between the outward apperance of the Super-Earth in conjunction with the planet Earth. At first they orbit the planet number of times to study its Geography and try to map the region. To their surprise apart from the discrepencies in size and shapes of the land masses the new planet looks just like Earth's sibling. It has a thick layer of atmosphere apparently with almost similar concentrations of CO2, O2 and Nitrogen. It has huge Oceans of Water and Huge rivers flowing across the continents. Huge rivers were found to be huge in both length and width. Before landing on the planet, the team is keen to find any artificial satelites orbitting the planet just in case if the extra terrestial life on the planet might be also intelligent enough to send out artificial satellites just like the Humans did but they find none. They are infact not sure if the planet has any life at all. But the green lushes spread across the huge continents suggest their is vegetation on the planet.
To be continued...

Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140117-exoplanets-superhabitable-planets-space-astronomy-science/

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