Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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