11. Will we ever be able to actually land on and visit any planets? Which ones other than Earth would we be able to go to? How many planets will be open to the public? (A K2S Question)

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Mars is probably the planet that will receive the first visitors from Earth, and it may be the only one for a very long time. It would take a couple of years to go there and return, so it would be a really long vacation! Big outer planets like Saturn and Jupiter are balls of gas, so it would not be a good idea to try to land on them, and Mercury and Venus are really hot.

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