Space Facts

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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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