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Saturn and its moons
Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, NASA

83

The number of confirmed moons of Saturn

 

7

The number of vehicles with wheels that have driven on the Moon

 

38

The number of millimetres further away the Moon gets, every year

 

12

The number of people who have flown to the Moon, but never walked on it

 

1410

Distance in light years to WASP-12b, an exoplanet that scientists think might have a moon

 


Did you know?

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system.


 

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