Space Facts

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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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