Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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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    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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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