Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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