What are 20 interesting space facts?

Answer 1

• 1. 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.

• 2. A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

• 3. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the moon

• 4. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

• 5. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

• 6. All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

• 7. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.

• 8. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

• 9. Astronauts cannot burp in space.

• 10. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

• 11. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

• 12. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

• 13. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

• 14. Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!

• 15. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

• 16. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

• 17. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

• 18. Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.

• 19. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.

• 20. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.