45 Moon Facts That Show How Little You Know About It

An Italian proverb says, “If the Sun shines on me, I care not for the Moon.” It's a flippant remark, as the Earth’s satellite is some simple thing not worthy of consideration. And we're going to share the most interesting facts about the Moon with you; it might change your mind about the moon's simplicity.
Did you know, for example, that there are huge temperature fluctuations on the Moon? Or that its gravity is only 1/6th that of the Earth’s. If your weight here is 100 pounds, you’ll only weigh 17 pounds standing on the Moon’s surface. You would also be able to walk a distance 6 times longer and carry a weight 6 times heavier there.
TIMESTAMPS:
How it was formed 0:33
How big it is 1:32
What is the temperature on the Moon? 2:53
Why we see the same side of it 3:18
Why the other side of the Moon is more mountainous 3:45
The greatest crater 4:21
Moonquakes 4:42
The Moon’s gravity 4:52
Is lunar dust dangerous? 5:28
Shadows on the Moon 6:11
Trees from the Moon 7:42
Fresh tracks on the Moon’s surface 8:10
Its own time zone 8:51
Why nothing can grow there 9:16
What Lunar seas look like 9:51
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SUMMARY:
- The Moon is not an ideal sphere. It's shaped more like an egg because of the Earth’s gravity.
- We can see solar eclipses pretty often, but moon eclipses only happen once every several hundred years.
- Although the Moon seems really bright, its ability to reflect sunlight is 3 times less than that of Earth.
- It would take about 300,000 Moons to produce as much light at night as there is in the afternoon. About 206,000 of them would have to be full.
- The gravitational influence of the Moon has this effect on the oceans. The highest tide can be seen at full or new Moon.
- It was only in 1959 that people could finally see the other side of Moon, thanks to a photo taken by the Russian spacecraft “Luna 3”.
- Craters on the Moon were first named after famous scientists, artists and researchers, and later – after American and Russian astronauts.
- There's water on the Moon, but leave your straw at home; it's all frozen in the craters and under the ground.
- Long-distance jumps can be uncontrolled and dangerous, as the Moon’s surface is full of deep craters.
- The Moon does have a kind of atmosphere, which is called an exosphere. It consists of helium, neon and argon. It’s ten trillion times less dense than on Earth.
- The absence of oxygen in the atmosphere means that the sky is utterly black while the sun continues to glare.
- The Moon is the only space body outside the Earth where humans have landed. So far.
- Modern smartphones are more powerful than the computers that were used to land the “Apollo” spaceship on the Moon.
- 12 people have been to the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the first one in 1969, and Eugene Cernan, the last, in 1972.
- There are 200 tons of space junk on the Moon. Actually it’s experiments, used-up backpacks and the like, left by NASA astronauts, who landed on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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