Space is strange! Few facts about outer space which will leave you excited.
- Water rich Ganymede!
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has 30 times more water than the total amount of water on Earth.
2. Oil fields on Titan.
Saturns’ moon Titan has 300 times more liquid fuel than the total known oil reserves on earth.
3. Jewellery Ghazana in Asteroid 433 Eros.
Asteroid 433 Eros has 10,000 to 1,00,000 times more gold and platinum than the total gold that has been mined from earth.
4. Ever densest, a neutron star.
The core of a neutron star is denser than the Nucleus of an atom. A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh 900 times the Pyramid of Giza.
5. Shooting star, Mira.
There is a star named Mira that is moving through our galaxy at a whopping speed of 130,000 m/s. The star has a tail of glowing dust which is 12.3x10^13 kilometers long.
6. The escape route from Earth.
The escape velocity for Milky Way galaxy from Earth is 317,000m/s (only 1000 times less than speed of light)
If we launch a spacecraft with this speed, it would leave the Milky Way and travel infinitely.
7. Frozen Earth, 750 - 590 million years ago.
750 million years ago, entire Earth was frozen like a Snowball and all continents had merged to form a single super continent named as Rodinia.
8. New born babies..
