• Question: What is your favourite planet?

    Asked by anon-225178 to Simon, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 20 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      Aside from Earth (for obvious reasons), Jupiter is my favourite. It’s so large and chaotic and extreme in general. Jupiter has no hard surface. Its sky has storms the size of Earth. It also has 79 moons(!) with a very special moon in Ganymede (see my profile). And I haven’t even told you that Jupiter is essentially a failed star. Had it been slightly heavier, we could have had another Sun in our neighbourhood!

    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      Outside Earth, Mars! This planet is fascinating: it used to have water (now only in ice form at the poles), an atmosphere and is thought by some to have been almost Earth-like. It has the biggest volcano in the solar system, taller than Mt Everest and the Marianas trench combined and 500km wide.
      And if you want to see what it looks like, you can google images and video from the Mars Rovers and watch sunset on Mars.

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