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Pretty amazing. It seems that everywhere we look in the solar system, there are things to surprise us. The speaker in this video is a little hard to understand, but he said something very interesting – that the salt in the water, plus other discoveries they made, mean that there are the right chemicals for possibly creating life. Forget life on other planets – we should be looking for life on other moons!

Jupiter. What a monster…

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Top 5 Reasons Europa Rocks!

Aliens of the Deep and Mission to Europa – explains how it’s possible for life to exist away from the Sun’s energy. Could one of Jupiter’s moons also contain life?

A futuristic, fictional look at what exploration of Europa might look like.

Here are some of the planets that Cluster B created using Planet 10. To make your own planets, click on these photos!

Ruby’s Astro Planet

Chloe’s Planet

Ruby and Chloe – what happened to your planets? Did they succeed?

Click here to explore the kelp forests of Monterey Bay!

Room 227 asked me to post some photos of their recent experiments with creating sugar crystals. The goal was to create rock candy, but instead they got crystals across the tops of their cups. Then they tried adding water to the cups and stirring, with some neat looking (but not very tasty) results.

Why didn’t the sugar and water mix turn into rock candy? Any thoughts?

Water found on Mars! July 31st, 2008

What we’ve all been waiting for! Scientists have known for years that there might be water on Mars in the form of ice, but this is the first time that we have tested actual soil and found water in it. The discovery was announced yesterday, along with news that Phoenix will add five more weeks to its mission and end in September, not August.

Current thinking is that if there is no water on a planet, there cannot be life. On our planet, wherever there is water, there IS life. No one is expecting to find little green men here – we are talking about tiny bacteria or single celled life forms, not Martians with flying saucers. We’re also more likely to find evidence of PAST life than current living things.

But, we have a reason to look! Congrats to JPL and NASA for this discovery.

We spent a lot of time this year talking about whether there could be life on other planets. Now it looks like we are going to find out!

The video is an excerpt from National Geographic and shows how Earth’s water came from several sources – including outer space!