• Question: What interests you the most about space?

    Asked by 276sptm43 to Guy, Christine, Hermine, Ollie on 2 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by 453sptm33, 936sptm33.
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      Guy Rixon answered on 2 Mar 2018:

      Currently, it’s the variety of kinds of planet that we see. Different masses, different sizes, different temperatures, different distances from the star, *very* different histories. Thousands of exoplanets known so far, none of them very much like Earth. It suggests that the conditions for our kind of life may be very rare.

      One of the key goals of the Plato mission is to find planets that really are Earth-like.

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