Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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