Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    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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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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