It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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