Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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