Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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