• Question: If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?

    Asked by Kati to Steve on 4 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Steve Marsden

      Steve Marsden answered on 4 Mar 2016:


      Well, that entirely depends on what you mean by “anywhere”…

      Given the “travel” keyword, I’ll assume you mean on Earth :P: If you’d asked me a couple of months ago I’d have had no idea, but last month I spent a week in Canada for a conference and fell in love with the county. I’ve never been so reluctant to get on a return flight. I’d love to spend a couple of months covering as much of Canada as possible.

      I have a general love of cold places, and have considered signing up to one of the many particle physics experiments located in Antarctica on the off chance I’d be able to spend a few months there.

      However, if we’re talking anywhere anywhere, a visit to the ISS would be amazing! If it weren’t for the problems of getting there, (and then surviving once there), I’d love to go to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The gravity is low enough (2% of Earth’s) and the atmosphere thick enough (14% of Earth) that it would be possible to fly. Doing an impression of Icarus high above the methane lakes would make for some fantastic holiday snaps.

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