10 Super-Interesting Space Facts That’ll Blow Your Mind

By- Shivanshi Srivastava

Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind

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Saturn is less dense than water. It could even float in a bathtub

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If you could lump together all known asteroids, their total mass won't be equal to 10 percent of the mass of Earth’s Moon

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Europa is one of the four largest moons of Jupiter covered in ice, smooth enough to skate!

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A Venus day is approximately 243 Earth days long. The bad news is we would have to wait up to three Earth years for a weekend. That’s because a day on Venus is longer than its year!

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Craters at the Moon’s south pole may be the frostiest place in the entire solar system

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If you stand at Martian equator, temperature at feet would be like a warm spring day, but at your head it would be freezing cold!

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More than 1,300 Earths would fit into Jupiter’s vast sphere

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