Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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