Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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