1. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is 400 times further away from Earth, making them appear the same size.
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2. A single day on Venus is longer than an entire year on Earth.
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3. If you ever stepped on the moon, your footprints would remain there forever.
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4. Only half a billionth of the energy released by the sun reaches Earth.
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6. The skin on your feet peels off in space.
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7. One million Earths can fit inside the sun.
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8. You become taller in space.
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9. Space isn’t that far away. In theory, if you could drive your car upwards, you could be there in less than an hour.
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10. You can cry in space but your tears don’t fall.
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11. All of space is completely silent.
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12. You can’t walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface.
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13. Olympus moon, which is 3 times higher than the Mount Everest, is the highest mountain known to man and is located on Mars.
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14. If you could fly to Pluto, the trip would take more than 800 years.
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15. An asteroid about the size of a car enters Earth’s atmosphere roughly once a year – but it burns up before it reaches us.
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16. The sunset on Mars appears blue.
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17. Uranus is tilted on its side.
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