Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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