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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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