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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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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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