I would choose Mars, mostly because of all the plans that we have for it. Imagine having people actually living there, it sounds insane!

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    Apart from Earth, Venus. Recently starting watching loads of content about Venus, and I just find it so fascinating how despite having 90% the gravity and 95% the radius it is so different to Earth. It makes me really wonder about habitability, and how lucky it is how things are. I almost feel sad that Venus is the way that it is, and that’s why it’s so interesting.

    I’m hoping we find out a lot more about Venus in our lifetimes.

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      Agreed. We know so little about Venus compared to Mars despite it being slightly closer to us. That whole drama with the phosphene gas a few years back really revealed how much there is to learn there.

      I also love that one of the serious ways scientists have proposed for colonizing Venus is to build cities that float in its clouds at the altitude where the atmospheric pressure / temperature are roughly the same as Earth’s. It’s simultaneously batshit insane and hoplessly romantic.

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      oh wow i didn’t know that it protects us from asteroids. the sound is hauntingly beautiful

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    Mars. Simple, it’s the closest and best candidate for exploration (and hopefully more!) in my lifetime.

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      There is so much to love about Mars. I would also like to add that its absolutely gorgeous from orbit AND the surface. Sure Jupiter looks great from Orbit, but I doubt we will ever take a cool photo from deep in the atmosphere. Its also distinct from the other planets when viewed with the naked eye from earth because of its very notable red tint.

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    I once viewed Neptune through a 60" telescope and the color was incredible. It was like a morpho butterfly 🦋 crossing a sunbeam in a dark forest.

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    My favorite planet is Jupyter. Jupyter and his moons are a wonderful sight to see with a telescope (same for Saturn).

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    Earth. It has this amazing self replicating stuff on it that seems to locally reverse entropy for a while using a system of absorbing energy from the sun. The stuff appears in a wide variety of forms and moves about and stuff. Haven’t seen anything else like it in the universe. It’s weird.