Space Facts

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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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 population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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