Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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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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