life on jovian planets lab report

1) Using the search engine of your choice, find the composition for the upper atmospheres of the Jovian planets. For this exercise it will suffice to find the three or four most common constituents.

a) Jupiter:

b) Saturn:

c) Uranus:

d) Neptune:

2) Using the search engine of your choice, find the approximate wind speed for the upper atmospheres of the Jovian planets.

a) Jupiter:

b) Saturn:

c) Uranus:

d) Neptune:

3) Using the search engine of your choice, list the six characteristics of life. No definition is required — simply listing them will be sufficient.

4) For each characteristic, write four or five sentences telling whether you think this characteristic can be present based on the conditions found in the first two questions. This is primarily subjective, so you will need to support your responses.

5) Based on your responses to this point, do you think that any, all, or none of the Jovian planets would be able to support life. Justify your answer in three to five sentences.