Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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