• Question: What planet would you like to visit if you were in space and why?

    Asked by 334tch48 to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 12 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 12 Jun 2016:

      I’d like to visit the Moon. There are a few reasons I’d like to go to the Moon:

      1.it’s not too far away, so the flight it quite short- only 3 days, compared to months to getr to Mars. I get bored quite easily, so being able to get to the Moon and go for a walk sounds quite nice.

      2. I’d like to see Earthrise like the Apollo 8 Crew. They were the first people to ever fly behind the Moon, and on Christmas day in 1968 they took a very famous picture of arising crescent Earth. It must have been a very memorable Christmas Celebration that year!

      You can see the Earth from Mars, but it looks very small, just likeMars looks very small to us on Earth.

      http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17936

      In this picture, taken from the Curiosity Rover on Mars, the Earth is a little teeny tiny white dot in the middle of the sky.

      3. The gravity on the moon is less than on Earth, it’s only about 1/3 as strong, so I think a trampoline would be really good fun to play with on the Moon because you could bounce really high.

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      Jupiter. Think of the epic engineering required to allow humans to explore it close up and survive! It’s massive – so much to explore! I wonder what it’s like ‘under the surface’? I wonder what that red spot is like close up and why is is shrinking??

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