45 Fascinating Facts About the Solar System That Scientists Have Discovered So Far – Part 2

#16 There Is A Six-Sided Jet Stream Of Winds Surrounding A Huge Storm And Making Up A Hexagon Shape At Saturn’s North Pole

#17 Venus Is The Brightest Object In Earth’s Night Sky After The Moon

#18 Saturn’s Rings Are Made Up Of A Lot Of Small Ice Chunks, Rocks Varying In Size From Dust-Size To The Size Of Mountains

#19 Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede Is Not Only The Largest Moon In Our Solar System

There’s also evidence that it has an underground saltwater ocean containing more water than all the water on Earth combined.

#20 If You Weigh 40kg (88lbs) Here On Earth, You’d Weigh 94kg (207lbs) On Jupiter

#21 The Sun’s Outer Atmosphere, The Corona Is Hotter Then The Sun’s “Surface” (Photosphere)

The Sun’s core reaches 15 million °C, the photosphere reaches only 5500 °C, while the corona can reach up to 2 million °C.

#22 Our Solar System Formed Around 4.5 Billion Years Ago

#23 There Are More Than 200 Moons In Our Solar System

#24 Uranus Was The First Planet Discovered With An Aid Of A Telescope

#25 There Is More Than 130 Million Space Debris Objects

#26 There’s Been About 6250 Successful Rocket Launches Since 1957

#27 Mars Has The Largest Volcano In The Solar System, Olympus Mons

It’s three times taller than Earth’s Mt. Everest with a base the size of the state of New Mexico.

#28 There Could Be A Ninth, Giant Planet In Our Solar System

#29 Mars Colour Is Due To The Iron-Rich Dust Covering The Surface

#30 Asteroids Are Leftovers From The Formation Of Our Solar System