Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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