An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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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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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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