An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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