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The Moon


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Comparison in Size:
A tennis ball would be the Moon and a basketball would be Earth.		 The phases of the moon caused by the Earth shading the moon from the sun!
















Picture of the Moon!
Diameter:
2,160 Miles
Circumference:
6,790 Miles
Volume:
1/50 of Earths
Distance From Earth:
238,857 Miles
Distance From Sun:
93,118,463 Miles
Daytime Temperature:
261º F
Nightime Temperature:
-279º F
Core Temperature:
2,192º F
Composition:
Hard Lava, Igneous, Rocks (Anorthosite, Glasses, Breccias), and Soil
Age:
4.6 Billion Years
Traveling Speed Around Earth:
2,300 MPH
Traveling Time Around Earth:
29 days, 23 hours, and 44 minutes
Full Spin on Axis:
27 Days, 7 Hours, 43 Minutes, 11.5 seconds
The Moon Orbits around Earth and we can see it thanks to the sun.
The Earth blocks the moon though so we see the moon in different phases.
The Moon Also Controls the Tides on Earth. The water in the ocean follows the moon's gravity creating tides.
Neil Armstrong was the first(1st) human to walk on the Moon
The Largest Crater is 700 Miles wide and the smallest is Microscopic
The Highest Mountain is 26,028 ft. tall, about 3,000 less than Mt. Everest
NASA is possibly planning on making a Space Colony on the Moon
The Moon has OVER 3 trillion(3,000,000,000,000) craters
The Moon only reflects 7% of the light that hits it
Lava flowed on the moon at one time but dried about 3.16-3.9 billion years ago.
The Moon has no liquids or atmosphere so it has no weather
The Moon's south pole has a large basin in it that may have ice crystals and dirt
About 70-150 Meteors hit the moon ranging from 4 ounces to 1 ton.
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