Space Facts

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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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