Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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