Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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