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Some AMAZING facts about space:-

• Jupiter moon Europa is covered by a thick crust of ice.

• Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system.

• You could FIT two earths inside the Great Red Spot, which is about 40,000km across.

• Mars is named as a red PLANET because of its blood-red colour.

• Both the north and south pole of mars is covered with ice.

• Solar system's biggest volcano is Olympus Mons which is about 600km across and is found on planet mars.

• One of the biggest crater on the surface of moon is called Bailly.

• You could only weigh about a sixth of your earths weight on moon.

• Venus is also called as evening star because it is so bright that its one of the first points of light we see shining as it gets dark.

• A day on venus lasts 243 earth-days, but a year is only 225 earth-days.

• Venus is named after a roman goddess.

• Mercury is the fastest planet. It zooms around the sun in just 88 days, at an incredible 173,000 kph which makes it faster than any space rocket ever invented.

• Halley's comet will next fly past the year in 2061.

• The Chinese made the first rockets about 1000 years ago.

• Wernher von braun invented the V2, a rocket missile used by germans in world war 2.

• The Saturn 5 was the tallest rocket ever made which were around 30-storey building.

• The European Ariane rocket could carry a fully grown elephant.

• The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.

• The first living creature in space was a RUSSIAN dog, called Laika.

• Alexei Leonov was the first person to took the first spacewalk.

• The first manned space station was Salyut 1, launched in 1971