Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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