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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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