Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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