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Space Facts

Featuring Interesting Space Facts, Funny Space Facts, and more Space Fun Facts.

There are 36 Space Facts!

  • 20 1. 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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  • 20 2. A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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  • 11 3. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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  • 7 4. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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  • 9 5. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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  • 10 6. All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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  • 5 7. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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  • 5 8. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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  • 25 9. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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  • 13 10. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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  • 9 11. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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  • 8 12. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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  • 3 13. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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  • 5 14. Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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  • 3 15. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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  • 9 16. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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  • 27 17. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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  • 4 18. Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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  • 1 19. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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  • 6 20. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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  • 1 21. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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  • 4 22. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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  • 4 23. The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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  • 2 24. The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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  • 10 25. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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  • 8 26. The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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  • 5 27. The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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  • 4 28. The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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  • 17 29. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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  • 4 30. The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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  • 7 31. The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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  • 2 32. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • 1 33. There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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  • 26 34. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
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  • 2 35. Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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  • 18 36. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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