The Moon
The Moon's scientific name is Luna.
Interesting Facts About Luna
The moon is 238,900 miles away from earth. The gravitational pull is 17% which means if you weigh 200 pounds on earth you would only weigh 34 on the moon. The gravity is 1.622 per second squared. It takes 27 days for the moon to make a complete orbit around Earth and has gone around planet Earth over 122,229,000,000 times. Can you believe that! This is because Earth is 4.527 billion years old. The moon is 6,784 miles around.
Layers of The Moon
The Moon has a 60-100 km thick crust covered in loose soil and made out of anorthosite rock. After that it has a rigid lithospheric mantle that is 1,000 km thick. Then it has a non-rigid asthenosphic mantle that is kind of solid. Last, the moon has the core which could be completely iron.
A Moon Fact
The moon is the only natural satellite Earth has.
The Moon's Size
The Moon is the fifth largest moon in our Solar System.
The Moon's Tallest Mountain
The Moon's tallest mountain is 4,700 meters tall which is just taller than Mount Everest. The mountain's name is Mons Huygen.
Moon Phase
We can see 60% of the moon 50% of the time.
Moon History
The first successful landing on the moon was in 1966 by the work of the Soviet Union's Luna Project.
Moon History
The first spacecraft to successfully land on the moon with a man in it was in 1969 by USA's NASA Apollo with Neil Armstrong in it, the first man to walk on the moon.
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NASA | Tour of the Moon