• Question: are there any undiscovered countries/planets/lands?

    Asked by ard nut to Frank, Ian, Isabel, Jared, Zena on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hmmm I am sure there are many planets we have not yet discovered. As our telescopes and space technology become better we are more likely to discover more and more plants and other bodies that are in our universe.

      When it comes to countries and lands within the earth, I think we have explored most of them. There are places even on earth though that we don’t know much about and that have been less explored than others!

    • Photo: Isabel Pires

      Isabel Pires answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Like Zena said, I am sure that there are many planets yet to be discovered! As technology gets better we are able to see deeper into space (and time!).

      On Earth, we still don’t know mush about certain parts of the planet, such as the bottom of the oceans. There are some incredible creatures down there, and remember it is a part of the world where there is no light and the pressures from the water are immense!

    • Photo: Ian Sandal

      Ian Sandal answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      There are certainly lots more planets to discover. At the moment we can only detect planets in other solar systems by the effect they have on their own sun (so we can’t really see the planets). This makes it very hard to find them and we can only detect very large planets (about the size of Jupiter) in this way. So there are certainly more planets out there to be seen.

      I think the Earth has been mapped quite well so there aren’t any countries or lands as such, but as Zena and Isabel have said there are lots of bits of the planets we know nothing about. The bottom of the oceans, inside volcanoes or remote jungles. Each of these can have their own micro environments that we still have to explore.

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