Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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