Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100
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.
14
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
121
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
147
It 'snows' metal on Venus.
13
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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