Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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