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- microgravity
- the condition of very low gravity
- Effects of free fall
- stuffy nose, taller, muscles lose shape, heart works less and bones lose calcium
- extraterrestrial
- a being from outer space, any object from beyond Earth
- 2 purposes for the ISS
- medical experiments and growth of food under microgravity
- radio telescope
- a gigantic antenna on Earth designed to receive radio signals from space
- 3 factors of the Drake Equation
- the average life span of a civilization, number of habitable planets and number of planets that develop intelligent life
- Drake equation
- method to estimate the odds of communicating with beings from another planet
- SETI
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- most important piece of the Drake equation
- the life span of an average civilization after it gains the ability to communicate across space
- radio wave
- a form of electromagnetic radiation
- free fall
- the motion of a freely falling object such as that of a spacecraft in orbit around Earth/a condition in which there is no resistance to the pull of gravity
- Canadian Hand
- robotic arm used on the ISS to help astronauts assemble and maintain the space station
- weightlessness
- a feeling, experienced in free fall, that there is no gravity
- meteorite
- example of an extraterrestrial
- weightlessness/zero gravity
- another description for free fall
- Voyager
- space probe that carries a disk made of copper that includes a sound message
- International Space Station (ISS)
- permanent space laboratory
- Robotic Eye
- robotic tool that can fly around and inspect the outer surface of the ISS