Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    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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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer 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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