By: Brad Nagel

Movies are a huge reason why we believe in life on other planets

UFO sightings make us curious Things that occur that we know isn’t possible from

creatures on earth Most of the universe is unexplored

Water- Necessary for all forms of life to exist

Carbon – Needed along with nitrogen to create cells which create life

An atmosphere- Life simply couldn’t exist without an atmosphere surrounding it

Many people believe mars has potential life They believe this because one of the mountains on mars

contains ice At one point was known to have an atmosphere Mars isn’t too close or too far away from the sun to

contain life

Jupiter’s fourth moon 6th largest moon in our solar system Like mars, it contains ice

Maybe where we humans lived billions of years ago Sun used to be much cooler allowing life to be possible on

Venus At that time Earth would have been frozen Thought to have plant life long ago Contains a large atmosphere

I think that life on other planets may exist. However, I think that this life is very simple and something like a plant like on Venus. Nothing nearly as complex as a human being exists in this universe in my opinion.

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