Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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