Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    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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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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