Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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