Moon
The Moon is Earth‘s bright and familiar neighbor in the sky. It lights up our nights and helps control the ocean tides.
A few interesting things
- You weigh less on the Moon because its gravity is weaker than Earth’s.
- The surface is covered in craters from space rocks that hit it long ago.
- The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, so we never see its far side from here.
A few details
- Diameter: 3,474 km
- Distance from planet: 384,400 km
- Orbit length: 27 days