Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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