• Question: what would happen if earth got too close to the sun ?

    Asked by Izzy.K to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      This isn’t even much of a “what would happen” one: Venus is what would happen.

      Venus is about the same size as the earth, and as far as we can tell, we think it had a similar set of chemicals and stuff when it formed as we did, it’s just that it was quite a lot closer to the sun, and that means that now the temperature near the surface is four hundred degrees, and it rains sulfuric acid.

    • Photo: Anu Antony

      Anu Antony answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      A terrible sunburn will be one of the smaller problems.

    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      we would all die. life on has come to be because millions of extremely unlikely events followed one another in the perfect conditions to create life. these unlikely events and perfect conditions were found on earth and in my opinion this is why we have contacted any life in space.

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