Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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