It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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