Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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    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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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