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Space Handwriting Resources
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Spectacular Space Facts
Lots of fun and interesting facts straight from NASA all about spectacular space!
Facts include:
- Why Saturn would float if it took a bath
- Deep Space Network antennae are almost as wide as football field
- Some particles in Saturn’s ring are as big as skyscrapers.
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Fascinating Asteroid Facts
We don’t talk about asteroids as much as some of the other things in space, but we should – they’re fascinating!
Facts include:
- some asteroids have moons of their own!
- NASA has sent spacecraft to study asteroids UP CLOSE!
- some asteroids are almost as big as small planets!
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Mysterious Moon Facts
The moon has inspired song writers and poets for generations, but here are some scientific facts about it that are just as fabulous!
Facts include:
- the moon doesn’t actually make it’s own light, instead it reflects the sun’s light like a giant mirror
- the moon controls the tides on the Earth!
- there is actually water on the moon, but it’s frozen and trapped in the cold areas around the moon’s poles.
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Sparkling Star Facts
The stars are so beautiful to us as the endless tiny dots of light in the night sky. But if we get close, what are they really like?
Facts include:
- stars are “born” in special places that scientists call stellar nurseries
- there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth!
- the closest star to earth, other than the sun, is called Proxima Centauri, but it would still take 75,000 years to travel to it!
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Space Exploration Inventions
Some of the most useful and unexpected things we use every day were originally invented for space travel, or use technology that wouldn’t exist if we didn’t reach for the stars.
Facts include:
- you might be sleeping every night on a space invention – memory foam!
- battery operated power tools were first invented for use on Apollo missions
- even modern baby formula owes its recipe to space missions!