Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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