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 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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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