On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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