Portal:Solar System/Did you know/2


 * ... that Jupiter is the only planet capable of pulling an interstellar comet into a Sun-centered orbit?


 * ...that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance?


 * ...that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth, making it the most Earth-like area in the Solar System?


 * ...that NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?