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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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