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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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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