Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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