Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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