Life Off Earth

For one reason or another, I don't think that there is life on Asteroid Hermes. There is no water on Hermes, which would probably be important for life. Also it has no atmosphere, oxygen or otherwise. We certainly wouldn't be able to breath on an asteroid. Plus the fact that it would be next to impossible to land a space shuttle on an asteroid of .9 km in diameter. Asteroid Hermes may have a magnetic field, although it also may not. As I said, I doubt that there is life on Asteroid Hermes. However I do think that there is life on other planets. If only we could get there.

Mars is between 36 and 250 million miles from earth and is the forth planet from our sun. Many scientists think that there could be life on Mars. Scientists are trying to find the essentials of life, such as water. The Mars rovers are looking for such evidence. As far as we can tell there is no intelligent life on Mars. However there may be microscopic worm things. Personally, I think it would be fun to know that there is life on a different planet. Plus, to them we would be the aliens, not them. It'd be like discovering a new place.

Distance in space

There are three units of measure in space, km, AU, and Ly. That's kilometers, Astronomical Units, and light years. My personal favorite is light years because its such a very long distance. I mean it only takes eight minutes to travel from earth to the sun at light speed, but that's beside the point. Kilometers is generally used to measure short distances like earth's radius. AU is used for more challenging tasks, such as the distance between planets. Light Year literally means the distance light travels in a year. As light can travel great distances in practically no time at all, thsi is used for such things as the distance between galaxies or universes.

At its nearest point, asteroid Hermes is only 300,000 miles from earth. That's just 482803 km. It's only a little farther than the moon. Unfortunately, it would not be possible to land on Hermes as it is to small and is moving to fast.