Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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