Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    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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    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 weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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