Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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 gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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