Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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 Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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