Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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