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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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