10 Fun Facts About Space!
A Dog Has Gone to Space
Laika is the most famous dog who has gone into space. She was not the first dog to ever go to space, but she was the first animal to orbit the Earth.
Pluto is smaller than the United States
Pluto is only half as wide as the United States. Pluto is also smaller than Earth’s moon.
A star is a ball of very hot gasses
Stars are primarily made up of hydrogen and helium, which are very hot gasses. Stars produce their shine by burning hydrogen into helium in their cores.
It would take 9.5 years to walk to the moon
There are more volcanoes on Venus than on any other planet in our Solar system
The surface of Venus has more than 1,600 major volcanoes, which includes the Maat Mons volcano which is 5 miles(8km) high.
There is floating water in space
Astronomers have found a massive water vapor cloud somewhere 10 billion light years away from Earth. This cloud holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in Earth’s oceans
Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear as there is no wind
Space is completely silent
This is due to the fact that space has no atmosphere, so that means that there is no way for sound to travel so that it can be heard.
The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus
Although other planets, like Mercury, are closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. In fact, Venus is so hot that the metal lead would melt. This is due to how its atmosphere traps heat.