Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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