what aspects of this new planet would you look for to ensure the survivability of our species?

Aspects of a New Planet Habitability
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The paper explores to expound on some of the critical things that would help in the establishment of a habitable planet by cross-examining the Interstellar movie. Miller planet is spacious and old enough to support life. Therefore, unlike other young planets, Miller’s world does not experience formation activities such as volcanoes which put life into danger (Thorne, 2014). The atmosphere composition also happens to be an aspect of consideration because life largely depends on oxygen and carbon. Atmosphere composition of hazardous gases would put the species survival at risk. The distance from the sun serves an essential purpose in determining the habitability of a planet. Short distance to the sun would cause effects of a runaway greenhouse which would dry out the water like in Venus. Having the body a bit far, it would experience minimal greenhouse effects resulting in a pleasant climate similar to earth (Petigura, Howard & Marcy, 2013). However, from the movie, Miller planet is at a distance from the sun which makes it contain mass water bodies.
The type of the sun the planet orbits translates to the kind and concentration of rays and light it receives. Identifying the sun type is of importance because different ray’s levels are life-threatening. According to the movie, Miller’s planet does not orbit any star, and thus its light comes from Gargantua’s accretion disk. The nature of the ocean also plays a vital role in identifying its suitability for life.

For example, the beaches of the miller’s world are very violent which threatens the survival of humanity. Laura Miller and Brad, characters in the movie died from these tidal waves at different times (Thorne, 2014). Availability of any life could prove potential survivability of other species because generally life depends upon the same essentials (Petigura, Howard & Marcy, 2013). Finally, identifying the moons of the planet would enable identification of effects such bodies causes such as gravitational pull. The pull influences tides of atmosphere and oceans which to extreme scale could become threatening to life. The ratio of the moon to the planet also translates to the effects these bodies would cause, for example, little or no sunlight.

References
Petigura, E. A., Howard, A. W., & Marcy, G. W. (2013). Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(48), 19273-19278.
Thorne, K. (2014). The science of Interstellar. WW Norton & Company.