… is the Earth’s satellite and closest neighbor
in space.
… is a big rock with mountains, flatlands, and craters.
… makes no light, it gets it’s light from the
sun.
… is about 390,000 km (240,000 miles) away from Earth.
… is ten years away if you walked there.
… is 3500 km (2200 miles) across (Could cover Australia).
… weighs 81 million trillion tons.
… is over 4 billion years old.
… has no air, nothing can live.
… has no water to drink.
… has no wind that blows or rain that falls.
… has more mountains and craters on the far side,
but not as many seas.
… travels in a path called an orbit around the Earth
… takes one month (27 days and 8 hours) to make one
round trip.
… doesn’t change shape, you see only the parts
that are lit by the sun.
… shape you see is called a phase, which follows the
same pattern every four weeks.
… The full moon closest to September 22 is called
the Harvest Moon.
… was first looked at through a telescope by Galileo
in 1609.
… has dark spots that are large, flat areas of dark
rock.
… has light spots that are mountainous areas made
of lighter colored rock.
… has craters which are deep pits on the surface,
made when space rock (meteorites) hit the moon.
… has a crater called Bailly, 4 km (2½ miles)
deep and 295 km (183 miles) wide.
… has big, dark spots of wide flat areas of rock called
seas or maria.
… has a lunar eclipse which happens when the
Sun, the Earth, and the Moon line up in a straight line.
… causes high tides and low tides of the Earth’s
oceans.
… was first walked on by an American.
… Apollo 11 took 66 hours to make the trip from Earth
to the Moon.
… Neil Armstrong made the first footsteps on the Moon,
which will be there forever.
… has no noise.
… has a black sky.
… Gravity on the moon is only 1/6 as much as Earth’s.
… is full of many of the minerals that we need and
use on Earth.
… has no germs.
