Venus' axis hardly has any tilt at all, unlike Mars and Earth. This means that, if it had a thin atmosphere, the planet would not have seasons.
After the Sun and the Moon, Venus is the brightest object in the night-sky from Earth
If you could take a journey in an normal airliner flying at its normal speed (about 644 km an hour) travelling from Earth to the Sun, it would take 20 years to reach your destination, and that's without stopping.
Light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth, 40 minutes to reach Jupiter and 7 hours to reach the edge of the Solar System.
Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon!
Despite the manned lunar missions being named after Apollo, in classical mythology, Apollo is actually the god of the Sun.
The moon is about 1/4 the size of the Earth.
The moon has no global magnetic field.
The first space craft to send back pictures from the moon was Luna 3 (built by the Soviet Union) in October 1959.
The dark spots we see on the moon that create the image of the man in the moon are actually craters filled with basalt, which is a very dense material.
The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour.
Only 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth.
The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres
Kandla port has a free trade zone.
India's first television center was set up at Delhi.
North American Real Christmas Trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Eighty-five percent (85%) of artificial trees sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China.
Russia is the largest country in area.
Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath.
It can easily learn about any cat's present state of mind by observing the posture of his tail.
Cockatoos are one of the most long-lived parrots.
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