Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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 organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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