• Question: is there a planet with air or oxyen on?

    Asked by cherry1 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Matthew Lam

      Matthew Lam answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Some of the other planets in our solar system have very small amounts of oxygen in their atmosphere but not enough that we could breathe with (Earth’s atmosphere has about 20% oxygen, I think!).

      However, else where in the universe the chances of another planet existing with a similar atmosphere to ours is likely considering the universe is infinitely large.

    • Photo: Andrea Hanvey

      Andrea Hanvey answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      The combination of gases in our atmosphere is the reason life thrives on planet earth. there may well be planets in our solar system and further out into space with some oxygen. Titan one of saturns moons has an atmosphere but its comprised of methane gas.

    • Photo: Anastasia Wass

      Anastasia Wass answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Europa is one of Jupiters moons and they think that has oxygen in its atmosphere. they also found that it’s covered in ice so there’s hopes it might have life on it!

    • Photo: Amar Joshi

      Amar Joshi answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      There are so many potential stars with planets that there has to be one with air/oxygen on. It is also likely that life exists. However, whether there is intelligent life is much harder to answer. Human life has advanced as it is multicellular – we have many different cell types while bacteria don’t they are unicellular. Scientists think that this only happened once on Earth and might not have happened on other planets where there is unicellular life.

      (This ignores the multiple universe theory)

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