Little known NASA facts about space that will surprise you

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Get ready to explore surprising facts from our solar system you probably didn’t know.

Saturn is the only planet that’s less dense than water.

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Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Valles Marineris is a huge canyon system on Mars.

With temperatures over 480°C, Venus is even hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

The Moon is shaped like a lemon, with flattened poles and bulges on both the near and far side around its equator.

1 tsp of neutron star weighs the same as the human population.

Jupiter’s magnetic field is bigger than the Moon.

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