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Les planètes et lunes du système solaire sont-elles habitables? | Véronique Dehant | TEDxUNamur


good evening namur I must make you dream

so we will be traveling in the

even solar system maybe

beyond the solar system we go

try to answer the question

planets and moons of the system

solar are they habitable for

answer this question of course we

will be based on observations on

the search for the technology of the

robotics of space missions

we send robots to the surface of

March

as for example mars heinz laboratory

we see on this image a small

laboratory that will observe the surface

of March which is as big as a

little car and who landed and who

is still rolling at the

March surface

at the moment but above all

define the habitability that is

that I mean by livability but

enough all the conditions

necessary and sufficient for a

form of life can exist even if

so it does not exist the only form of

life we ​​knew it’s

obviously the fauna the flora the

humans are all at his need back

of liquid water

of course energy and nutrients

on earth in addition we have a

atmosphere we have a moon that

stabilize our focus we have

plate tectonics

continents that descend into the

mantle of the earth that goes up talking

the mid- oceanic rhythms and we

have a water cycle a cycle of

carbon

we have a magnetic field that we

protects as a ray shield

rays of the cosmic and the wind

solar from the sun then from

water liquid water

it’s still important for the

life one of the three important elements

so to the energies

and which one was the third

nutrients the nutrients come together

it’s found in rocks

everything we eat of course but

the doggies all life forms have

need nutrients energy

energy we have the energy of

sun stays water water how to find

water on the surface of a planet

good to have water it takes

understand this phase diagram of

water the water in the state of solid ice

water in the liquid state and water to

the state of vapor for life we ​​have

need liquid at a pressure of a

atmosphere pretty much the atmosphere

of the earth

we know that water is at the temperature

and the pressure here in this diagram of

phase we know that water goes from state

from ice to liquid state to zero

degree and state liquid to the state

100 degree steam in the ranges

temperature and pressure that

reign on the surface of the earth we have

so liquid water on the surface of

Earth

what about other planets then

planets like march

it’s my planet prefer you go

see it’s the number one for

livability after the earth then

March

she currently has temperatures

between -150 degrees and over 20 degrees and

a pressure about 1 100th of the

land pressure about 7000

part of these pressures there we really

very very rarely liquid water to

the surface of march

really in extreme conditions

temperature think in the middle of summer haha

at noon then we really have the

opportunity to have a little bit

of liquid water and still it is better

have salt in the water to go down

the 7 will not be able to have this possibility

so that’s for march what is it

other planets venus venus and

mars is further away from the sun one but one

then we have the land and then closer to the

sun in venus come as he pu

to prove the closest to the sun more

hot and the one an atmosphere

about 90 2 times the atmosphere of the

earth a a can of soda is

crushed on the surface of Venus so

it’s really a huge pressure

we have because of this atmosphere a

huge greenhouse effect

and this greenhouse effect gives us

temperatures above 4 150 degrees

constantly so the surface of venus

as the slide show here

we have extreme temperatures

hot and no liquid water

what about mercury we’re here

even closer to the mercury sun did

no atmosphere so mercury at a

extremely cold night and a day

extremely hot we are in

temperature ranges the least 150

degrees is and over 400 degrees so of

again no liquid water on the surface

of mercury

if I recap I have a planet

Venus that is too hot uninhabitable

a mercury planet too hot nor

too cold uninhabitable remains my

pamper march

so this planet I like it because

that because I kill them said it’s

really the planet on which I

spend the most time

and in fact the space probes that are

currently in orbit around March

brings us back

more and more detailed images

is splendid besides you can

surf the web you will see this is

really splendid and what do we see at the

March surface we see it’s huge

scarf called valles marineris

valles marineris and we also see

systems of two valleys of

rivers delta river

water marks on the surface of March

but not from where we do not see everything

does my recipe a very planet

interesting because there is no

tectonic plates

it means that the surface of March

is not rejected born as at the

surface of the earth

so I can read the whole story of

March on its surface

and what do I see in the story

of March I see that in his past

between 4.6 billion years and 4

billion years

there was water on the surface of

March

a lot of water on the surface of March

streams of water on the surface of March

let’s go back to our phase diagram of

water to have liquid water so

life on the surface of march march enough

now at the moment for

we have liquid water

climb a little bit in the pressures

so it must be in the past of March

we are an atmosphere at that moment

we can have two wolves liquid that

so tells us our observations it’s

that in the past of March well we

had an atmosphere and this

atmosphere

at the moment at 10 by almost

gone there are seven mini bar co2

so so march to were livable

how is a planet that has

been habitable some time is

now become almost uninhabitable and

well all this is related to evolution

of the planet itself and not

only its atmosphere also from

its interior its gas interior

we have volcanism we have degassing of

co2 and its shape an atmosphere

obviously we have a magnetic field at

very early in the history of March and we

can see it in the rocks at the

March surface the very old

rock on the surface of march between 4

points 6 billion years and 4

billion years have permeated a

magnetic field

it’s a magnetic field is remnant

past fossilized there was a field

magnetic between 4.6 billion

years and 4 billion years of which

really very early in the story of

March

this magnetic field plays a role of

shield against the thermal wind and

so protects the atmosphere without this

heat shield obviously

the atmosphere is rod and on and march

can lose its atmosphere

so it’s interesting to have a

magnetic field that we have on

earth to protect us from erosion

solar wind

we have had throughout the history of

planets the impacts of the impacts of

meteorites that brought

volatile but also makes escape a

part of the atmosphere

we’re still asking and it’s a research

very current questions about

the evolution of the biosphere of March

and there I gave you a large number

two elements that allow

answer this question

we are still working

on this planet

but let’s get back to earth and I think

I showed you that the planets of the

style of the earth we call that the

telluric planets

these planets at the moment do not

are not habitable and so we are

really good on earth and that’s a

message that I can make you

we really have a chance of crazy then

little parenthesis so we continue

our journey in the solar system

we went to Mercury Venus the

earth mars then we at the belt of

carnon asteroids then behind this

asteroid belt

we have planets called

giant planets jupiter saturate

for example these planets around these

planets when we observe what is

going around these planets we see a

large number of moon and that’s a

little parenthesis that I would like to do

because in our solar system

selune are really potentials

for habitability

why because for example there you

have on the top right the image of the

moon europe moons of jupiter and see

this moon is covered with ice and

below the ice crust

well we have an ocean a liquid ocean

the more one gets inside a

planet where inside a moon

the hotter it is

so even if it’s very cold in

these worlds the very very far from the sun

inside these ice worlds

the ice melts and we have an ocean in

below the ice crust of europe

we have an ocean below the crust

of ganymede ice there is an ocean in

under the titan ice crust

there is an ocean so all these oceans

if they are in contact with the coat

the famous nutrients we mentioned

just now if they are in touch

with the coat well there is the

opportunity to have life of

the energy we have there are the tides

there is sun etc.

there is energy we have water

liquid and we have nutrients

if the ocean is in contact with the

mantle in his moons though

some of those a shower I’ll go

two ocean sandwiches and

ice inside two elected no

we really find sandwiches

these are models for now

has not gone yet to see

the inside of cells and so we

could have either oceans in

contact with the coat and therefore the

life be oceans wedged between

layers of ice we close the parenthesis

we will leave the system now

solar and we click the solar system

but but I would still like

you represented them in in

all the possibilities of

different solar systems so

our solar system is a whole

of planets that revolve around the

Sun

the sun is the big yellow dot on

the slide he has some mass the

put some energy and so the

earth and in an area where energy

is such that we have a temperature with

our atmosphere of course a

temperature that allows us to have

liquid water

this is called the zone

roominess

that’s for the sun this area

of habitability it is the turn of the

earth mars and mercury are and march and

Venus forgiveness are just a little bit

outside this livability zone

but it’s not just our sun and the

planets of our solar system he

there are other galaxies and even in our

own galaxy there are other stars

with other planet systems and

its stars and are either of the

dimension of the sun is smaller or

bigger if they are smaller

they emit less energy so the

habitability area will get closer to

the star and if they are wider

the livability area is going to be more

far from the star and so astronomers

have defined this area of ​​habitability

which is represented in blue on the

slide and that’s the area in

which one can try to find

planets

habitable like the earth the sweat he

must she looks like the earth

it is telluric so she

was making a coat and not that she was

sparkling like jupiter

so that’s what they do

astronomers right now they

seek planets of the style of the

earth in habitable areas and there in

has a lot more and more the

technology advance more we can

observe this kind of planet

calls the exoplanets are they

like the earth are they in the zone

roominess

that’s what astronomers are trying to

determine by way of conclusion I

would just like to tell you that the

system of the solar system is

exceptional and our land is

exceptional we can in our own

solar system eventually ali

find life inside moons

around jupiter and saturne but

certainly astronomers a very

good idea to go for

other solar systems or system

canvases in the exoplanets

try to go watch them I hope

that I gave you a dream I you

thank you for your attention

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