Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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