It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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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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