SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT SPACE
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- The Sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is 400 times further away from earth. That's the thing making them appear the same size.
- If you ever stepped on the moon, your footprints would remain there forever. Because of less friction on the moon's surface.
- How big the sun is ?...1 million earth can fit insides the sun.
- The Sunset on Mars appears blue.
- The furthest manmade object is Voyager -1. It has messages for aliens on board in many different languages.
- Saturn would float if you put it in water. Because the density of Saturn is less than the density of water.
- 1 year on Mercury consists of less than two days of Mercury. 1 day of mercury consists of 58 days:15 hour:30 minutes of earth.
- Every year, the moon is moving away from earth by 3.8 centimeters.
- The light-emitting from the sun is 30,000 years old.
- Our solar system is 4.57 billion year old.
- The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus mons, which is located on mars. It peak is 16 miles(25 km) high, making it nearly 3 times higher than Mount everest. And not only tall it's also 3,74,015 ft^2 (1,14,000 m^2) wide.
- Pluto is smaller than united state.
- A large percentage of steroids are pulled in by jupiter's gravity. For this reason, Jupiter is known as the dumping grounds for our solar system. Jupiter is like a bodyguard of Earth. Thanks Jupiter..!
- Space is completely silent. No air is available in space that's why sound can't travel in space.
- A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
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