It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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