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DO YOU LOVE DOING EXPERIMENTS? THEN BECOME A
SPACE SCIENTIST.
There are all kinds of science jobs in the space industry, from chemists who grow crystals in space, to psychotherapists who work with the human brain, studying thoughts and feelings.
Planetary scientists look at planets and objects in the solar system.
They might use spacecraft such as the Cassini, which orbited Saturn for almost 14 years, taking photographs and studying the planet, then sent the data back to Earth to be investigated.
Exoplanet hunters look for planets outside our solar system, orbiting stars far away from the Sun. We have found almost 4,000 of these planets already. One day it might even be possible for humans or robots to visit these planets.
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