It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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