Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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    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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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