What are 10 interesting or unsual facts about space?
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension. Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun! December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truely left Earth. Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km). We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans! The space age began on the 4th October 1957. If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. The one and only satellite that Britain has launched was called Black Arrow. The odds of being killed by space debris – 1 in 5 billion. The Earth’s revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually. Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings. Astronaut Neil Armstrong (the first man on the moon) f
