Fun Facts
This page has some crazy and unknown facts that you can learn and share with friends and family.
- Mercury has a huge, iron core, even though it is the closest planet to the sun
- Mercury has the most craters in the solar system
- Venus has 90 times the atmospheric pressure than Earth and any spacecraft that entered its atmosphere was flattened almost instantly by the pressure
- The Earth used to be purple
- Earth's oceans hold $771 trillion worth of gold
- Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system
- Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system
- Jupiter has many of the components needed to make star, during its formation around 4.6 billion years ago it almost became a star
- Saturn's rings are not solid
- Saturn is a flattened ball
- Uranus rotates on its side
- Uranus turns on its axis every 17 hours and 14 minutes
- Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system
- Scientists believe that it rains diamonds deep within Neptune
- Did you know the Universe is flat?!
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