Russia sent the first human-made object into space
True
Saturn's rings are 90% ice.
True
the USA was the first country to send astronauts to the moon.
True
The ocean covers 80% of our planet.
False. The correct percentage is 70.
Uranus is blue
True
Saturn is the only planet that has rings.
False. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have rings.
The first animal to go into space was a dog.
False. Fruit flies were the first animals sent into space
There are 57 moons on Mars...
False. Mars only has 2 moons
it takes 1 year to for the earth to do a lap around the sun
True
Dogs went to space before humans
True
Pluto is a planet
False. it is a dwarf planet
Mars is sometimes known as the blue planet.
False. It is known as the red planet.
earth is the biggest planet in the solar system
False
The Earth rotates slowly around the sun.
False. The Earth rotates around the sun at about 1,000 miles per hour.
Mercury is the smallest planet
True
Neptune is orange
False. Neptune is blue
The Solar System is 4.5 billion years old
True
A NASA space suit costs 1 million dollars.
False. It actually costs about 12 million dollars
The Earth has always been blue.
False. It was formerly purple.
Venus is the closet planet to the sun.
False. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
True
the sun is so big, you could fit more than one million earths inside it.
True
There are more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. (1 billion trillion)
True
When you cry in space, your tears won't fall.
True
The sun orbits the earth.
False. The earth orbits the sun
The universe is always getting bigger
True
Space is very cold.
True... its -170°C
Mars is the hottest planet
False. Venus is the hottest planet
Uranus has rings around it made of electricity...
False. They are made of ice and rock
A day on Venus is longer than a year.
True
There is water on the moon
True
The sun is the hottest planet.
False. The sun is not a planet, its a star
Stars are huge balls of gas
True
There are 7 planets in our solar system...
False. There are 8