Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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