Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    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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