Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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