Sol 63 Hi Aadrith! How are you doing? Thank you for a lovely letter again, I was delighted to receive it during our Saturday's Comm Window. First of all how do you know Corona Virus is smelly? If it were smelly wouldn't everyone run away from the smell and no one would get infected? I doubt Mr. Modi likes the lockdown himself, well he cannot go out as well right? This lockdown is for the protection all citizens, young space explorers like you included. Don't worry I am sure we will all be doing fine very soon and you can go out and play to your hearts content. Now I'm going to tell you something fantastic! The current mission I'm on is called "Starcharting" I travel and map all stars that I see and record any celestial activity. It's the favourite part of my job. Do you know we stay in a pre-designated sectors to observe and document all activity in the area. We record what are the planets present, classify those planets into various "C
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SOL: 17 I've received two letters from 2 young boys, I think they want to be astronauts and travel through space in the near future. Whatever it may be, these seem to be good kids and definitely have questions that concern the universe at large. Hi Agastya, how are you doing? I'm very happy to hear from you. I hope you are reading a lot of books and writing down everything you've learnt from them. Thank you for sending the two questions over to me in space mail. Below are the responses for you! Q1) What if the earth doubled in size? A) That's an amazing thought Agastya. Did you ever give a thought that if the earth doubled in size would the Himalayas we twice as high? Would the oceans be twice as deep? Would countries be twice as big? Would we be closer to the moon? Would atmosphere be on the surface just as how humans are? Would the temperatures drop to half of what they were now? Or would they double? Would we weight twice as much or half as much? What d