Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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