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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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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