Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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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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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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