Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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