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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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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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