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Due to the vast cloud of Carbon Dioxide.
As compared to the distance between Mercury and the sun, the distance between Venus and the Sun is twice. Despite this much distance, Venus is hotter than Mercury. The reason is that Venus has a massive cloud of Carbon dioxide in its surrounding trapping sun rays. This phenomenon gives rise to its temperature.
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Apollo 17.
Apollo 17 was the last time when humans traveled on space. NASA launched Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972. This was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program. This mission took 12th people on the surface of the moon, and this is how the mission ended.
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437 days.
A Russian Astronaut named Valeri Polyakov was the one who accomplished this mission. 437 days means spending 14 months in space. He stayed aboard the Mir space station from January 1994 to March 1995.
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2159 miles (3,474.2 km).
In our solar system, Earth’s moon is the largest planetary satellite. Earth’s moon is 27% of the size of Earth. The gravitational force of the moon is 17% as compared to Earth’s gravitational force. This is very interesting because a man who can jump 10 feet on Earth can easily jump 60 feet on the moon.
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13 by 6 inches (33x15,24 cm).
This was the dimension of the footprint left by Neil Armstrong boot in 1969. The exterior shell is the same size for all the astronauts’ boots. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Apollo 11 mission was the first space flight so far landing humans on the moon.
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13.8 billion years old.
Different methods were used by scientists to measure the age of the universe. Methods such as measuring the composition of matter and energy density. They measured the age of the oldest stars in space to calculate the age of Earth. It is believed that Earth should continue to exist for billions of years.
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Around 27%.
Only 27% of the universe is dark matter. 68% of the universe is dark energy, whereas less than 5% of the universe is made up of ordinary matter. Approximately 80% of the universe’s mass is made up of the material that is not visible to us.
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Mercury.
Till 2006 Pluto was considered the smallest planet. Pluto is now removed from the list of planets. Mercury has a radius of 1516 miles and is actually the smallest of all the planets. Interestingly, Mercury is named after the messenger of God who was roman. The sun would appear three times larger than this planet.
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Eight planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as terrestrial planets. The other four including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, are the giant planets. Two are gas giant planets which include Jupiter and Saturn. The other two are giant ice planets which include Uranus and Neptune. Sorry for the ninth planet named Pluto. It was discovered in 2014, but still, it’s existence is not confirmed.
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Jupiter.
In terms of volume and surface, Jupiter is considered the largest planet in our solar system. The diameter of Jupiter is eleven times more than the diameter of the Earth. Jupiter is a giant gas ball. It has 75 moons. Unlike Earth, Jupiter cannot support life.
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