Some interesting facts about our solar system

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There are a lot of mystical and flawless things about solar system you might don’t know. I am sharing some of the facts about our solar system!

It is interesting to know that earth changes its polarity which means that North Pole converts into South Pole and vice-versa. This change of polarity can occur after a period of 5000 years to 5 million years.

You have often heard about the fact that the height of astronauts grow in space. This is due to the fact that the cartilage disc in spinal cord expands like a spring causing the whole body to increase its total length and thereby astronauts become temporarily taller!

Do you know that every year, North America and Europe moves 4 cm away from each other? It is due to the movement of continent bearing plates.

Earth has the highest average density as compared to other planets of solar system while Saturn has the lowest. It means earth is the densest of all the planets of our solar system.

We only see one side of the moon. We never see the other half from the earth. It is because of the fact that earth’s rotation and moon’s rotation happens exactly at same time. The other side of moon ever seen is from spacecraft!

Jupiter acts as a life saver to Earth. It sucks all the debris from the solar system before it reaches forward. The reason for this this phenomenon is the gravitational pull of the Jupiter which allows it to create an attractive force to clean up the solar system!

Which is the hottest planet? Your answer will be mercury. Right! But it’s not actually true. Venus is the hottest of all the planets. Mercury is however closest to sun but possess no atmosphere to hold the heat taken from the sun. On the other hand, Venus has very thick atmosphere to trap heat and thus is the hottest!

Your one day visit to Mercury will be fifty eight days on planet earth! In actually, the same phenomenon can be experienced by visiting Antarctica where day and night are of six months!

If it is calculated physically on mass then our solar system is made up of 99% of the sun’s mass and rest 1% accounts for the mass of planets and other asteroids!

Isn’t it peculiar to know more about our solar system? There are a lot of facts which will widen your eyes. Our solar system is unique in its existence and so as we!