• Question: what is the most earth like planet?

    Asked by raotnas to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by sophia2012.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      We’ve found loads of exoplanets – ones around other stars, but most of them are like Jupiter, but at the same distance as Mercury. We havne’t found another rocky planet in the so called ‘Goldilocks Zone’ where liquid water can exist. The most earth like planet, then, is actually Mars. It’s just further out from the sun and so is much colder.

    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Mars, but do not hope to go and live there. We could find some earth-like planet outside the solar system, but so far we are not sensitive enough to relatively small planets, and we only saw big ones.

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