Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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