• Question: will we ever be able to travel past the goldilocks zone?

    Asked by SWAG to Camilla, Dan, Katie, Mike, Rhys on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Katie Sparks

      Katie Sparks answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      The goldilocks zone is really small (in space terms). The Goldilocks zone means we have a planet at the right temperature: so not too hot that all water is a gas and not too cold that all water is ice. In our solar system that leaves only Earth. There are currently plans to send people to Mars, and we have certInly sent spacecraft much further than Mars. The biggest challenge to sending people long distances is the technology to bring them back and he length of time it takes to get them there. That’s why we use in-manned spacecraft, they don’t need feeding all the time!

    • Photo: Camilla Weiss

      Camilla Weiss answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      We’re working on lots of new technology to allow us to live on Mars. I think one day we’ll have developed enough technology that lets us live on planets outside the golidlocks zone – technology that protects us from extreme temperatures and lets us produce food and water with resources that might not be available. Maybe by then we would have found a way to travel the vast distances we’d need to like Katie says.

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