Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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