MOON

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Features

Earth Comparison

If you were there

  • Earth's satellite
  • formed over 4.5 billion years ago
  • Many meteorites have hit the moon
  • thousands of years from now footsteps from Apollo crews will be sharp and clear
  • A little egg-shaped
  • 200,000 miles between earth and the moon
  • Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon he was there on july 20,1969 (He was an American)
  • Craters that are 600 miles wide and are called Marias
  • maria forms a pattern that some people call the man in the moon
  • 12 people have been on the moon and brought back 841 lb. of lunar rock to study
  • at noon the temperature on the moon is 273o f
  • At night the moon's sky  is 4 times darker than Earth's
  • if you weigh 100 lbs. on Earth than you would weigh 17 lb. on the moon

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