Telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope have helped us understand and observe the solar system and space. There are 11 planets in our solar system including Earth and Mars, though there is no sign of life on other planets yet. Scientist believe life could exist on Mars or other terrestrial planets if certain conditions were present. Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are large planets made of gas, while terrestrial planets like Earth, Venus, Mercury and Mars are rocky bodies that could support life under the right conditions.

1. what technology has help us understand
the solar system and what happens in
space?
Space Questions
By Kaylee Beard

2. Telescopes
The Hubble Space Telescope was
deployed from the Space shuttle
Discovery during STS-31 on April 25,
1990. Since then, there have been 5
servicing missions that continued to
upgrade the telescope's scientific
instruments and operational
systems. Hubble reached a major
milestone, its 20th anniversary in
orbit, on April 24, 2010.

3. Our Earth is just one of 11 different
planets including the Sun and Pluto.
They are all in a alignment and
hopefully will stay that way.
There is no sign of life on other
planets but scientist believe that if
certain small things happen to the
other terrestrial planets then there
could become life on these planet
mars and others.

4. Gas giants are big balls of gas
that float around in space
A gas giant
planet is a big
ball of gas.
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giants in the
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•Satuqn

5. Terrestrial planets are like our very own
earth. They are made of rock and stone ion
and lots of other things. The reason why
there is life on earth is because we are in the
perfect spot in our solar system to make life
and have oxygen and nitrogen so we can life
and we have water so that we can survive on
planet earth.
The terrestrial planets are
• Mars
• Earth
• Mercury
• Venus

6. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet
http://www.google.com.au/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&q=terrestrial%20planets
&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.google.com.au/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&ie=ISO-8859-
1&tbm=isch&q=earth
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/index.html