An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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