Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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    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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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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