The Moon - Lunar Facts Facts About The Moon

The moon

The phases of the moon 
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The Moon is the natural satellite of the Earth and its diameter is one quarter of the earth. It was comparable to the width of the Australia.

The moon is the overall fifth largest satellite in our solar system.

The Mass of the Moon : 7.342X1022 kg; (0.012300 of the earth's) and its surface area is abour 3.793X107 km2; i.e 0.074 of the earth's and average orbital speed is 1.022 km/s.

What is the moon madeup of ?

The Moon is made up of rocks,metals,etc just as other planets forms. The blanket of the rock particles contain variation between 5 meters to 20 meters deep.

What happen if we lose our natural satellite?

The answer is when we lose our natural satellite the seasons occurs on the earth it will not happen and weather system get disturb and it means that it forms ice ages.

Lunar Facts

Facts About The Moon

The Moon is the only one natural satellite of the Earth and fifth largest Moon in our solar system.

The presence of the moon helps to maintain our weather system
The Moon’s distance from Earth is 385,000km.

The Moon contain atmosphere like exosphere in very thin layer.

The Moon protect us from comet or asteroid impacts.