Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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