• Question: what is your favourite planet?

    Asked by Flo to Scott, Ry, Maggie, Daniel on 15 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Ry Cutter

      Ry Cutter answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      Planet OGLE-2016-BLG-1195L b:
      It’s one of smallest planets we’ve seen and is what we call a super Earth!
      The reason we found it is because it’s gravity bent light in a very particular way (called microlensing). It’s very far away so we wouldn’t be able to see it any other way. It was only discovered this year!
      Great Question,
      Ryan 🙂

    • Photo: Maggie Lieu

      Maggie Lieu answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      Mars is the best planet because its the closest one to us. It only takes 6 months to get there :/

      It has water so we can live there and maybe terraform it someday to look like earth (with oceans and trees!)

      It has the biggest volcano in the solar system and it has 2 moons!

    • Photo: Scott Melville

      Scott Melville answered on 16 Nov 2017:

      Kepler 16b! It has two suns in the sky, so it’s like Tatooine from Star Wars 🙂
      In fact, it’s so cool, that you can even buy postcards (from NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau)
      https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/exoplanet-travel-bureau/

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