Space Facts

    Random 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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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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    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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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