• Question: What is the name of the most Earth-like planet you have found?

    Asked by Bobby troll to Alex, Amanda, Marco, Olivia on 15 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Amanda Barnes

      Amanda Barnes answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      I haven’t looked into planets.

      At the moment we know that venus is a similar size to Earth – but we don’t know much more about it. It is warmer than earth as it is closer to the sun and also has shorter years as it takes less time to travel around the sun.

      Venus has longer days than earth though because it spins round very slowly compared with earth.

    • Photo: Alex Evans

      Alex Evans answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      Scientists recently discovered a number of potentially Earth-like habitable exo-planets far out in space, but they are all outside our solar system – so it would take us a very, very long time to reach them!

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