Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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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    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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