It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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