• Question: If you could travel to and survive on any planet in the known universe for 24 hours, which planet would you visit and why?

    Asked by rhooper821 to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      I would go to 55 Cancri e. it is a rocky world, twice the size of Earth but is 8 times its mass, so it is classified as a super Earth. The temeperature of it is 2,150 degrees celcius and because it is a carbon rich planet the conditions are perfect for forming diamond. So under a layer of graphine on the surface there is a layer of solid diamond.

    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      I’d like to go to planet PH1 – discovered by planethunters.org – because that planet has four suns. Imagine the sunset! Amazing…

    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      This is going to sound very, very boring as it’s a planet in our solar system but I’ve always loved Jupiter. I think it looks stunning in telescope images, I love that we can see it from Earth with the naked eye.

      I want to see Jupiter’s ‘spot’ up close as well. It’s a huge storm which could fit 2-3 Earth sized planets within it.

      And there are loads of these storms all over Jupiter!

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      One of the new ones recently discovered by NASA’s space telescope, capable of sustaining life. I’d want to be there without a mask, dive in their sea, leave my footprints in their sand. Hopefully not be eaten by their dinosaures! I’d be their alien, raising my hand and announcing I came for 24h, in peace 🙂

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