The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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