Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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 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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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