TheMoon

The Moon is the name of the Earth's only natural satellite.The Moon is about 1/4 of the Earth's diameter.The Moon orbit's the Earth in 29.5 days. The Moon shows the same face every time it orbit's the Earth.The far side of the Moon is known as the dark side,The Moon is about 5 million years old!The solar system is about 45 billion years old!!!There are a lot of theories about how the Moon was created,but the one that is most believed is that the early Earth struck by a body about the same size as mars and the material ejected into space from the Earth and the impacting body eventually accreted into the Moon.With a much smaller maths(about 1/80th of the earth.)The gravity is about 1/6th of the Earths.The Moon has hardly any atmosphere.This means that the surface temperature is essentially controlled by the day/night cycle.The night time temperature is about 233 degrees Celsius and daytime is 123.



On the Moon there is no atmosphere to burn up asteroids and comets,and with no atmosphere there is no weather to wear down the landscape.If you visited the moon today ,the footprints of Apollo astronauts would still be visible exactly as the day they were left there in the 1960's and 70' The distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 221,463 miles.(356 334 kilometres). References: My science book,Mr Bailey and [|Wikipedia]