• Question: What is your favorite planet?

    Asked by Sophie and Flo to Scott, Ry, Maggie, Hannah, Daniel on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Scott Melville

      Scott Melville answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Kepler-16b 😀
      It’s an exoplanet not too far away – and the coolest thing about it: it has TWO suns! So if we lived there, we would see two suns dancing around each other in the sky, which I think that would be super pretty 🙂 (a bit like Tatooine from Star Wars)

    • Photo: Ry Cutter

      Ry Cutter answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      In the solar system, Jupiter. It has ultraviolet version of the northern lights:
      cool video:

      But currently my favourite exoplanet is OGLE-2007-BLG-368L b. It’s one of the smallest exoplanets we’ve seen and the only reason we can see it is because of gravity bending light called microlensing! Microlensing offers one of the best ways to find an Earth sized planets to date.

    • Photo: Maggie Lieu

      Maggie Lieu answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      My favourite planet is Mars.

      Its just like Earth – it has seasons, an almost 24hr day, its gravity is 1/3 of earths and it has water so maybe one day humans can go live there.

      It also has some really cool things like acid fog, crazy sand tornados (called dust devils) which whilst looks dangerous, won’t hurt us much at all.

      Also if you ever go to Mars I could be your personal AI to help you explore the planet, but for now, you could also check out the game I helped to develop, where you can see more cool phenomena on Mars:

    • Photo: Hannah Middleton

      Hannah Middleton answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Hmm, I think I would pick Saturn! I’ve seen it in a small telescope and could just about make out the rings at the sides. Plus it has this very cool hexagonal hurricane at it’s north pole, which may have been there for decades or even longer!

      https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion/

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