An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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