Space Facts

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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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