An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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