15 Moon Facts That Will Surprise You

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MOON FACTS THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU

The Moon is there every night — so familiar that we forget how extraordinary it is. It's the only celestial body humanity has physically ...

ASTRONAUT FOOTPRINTS WILL LAST MILLIO...

The footprints left by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, are still there — and will remain for a...

THE MOON IS DRIFTING AWAY — AND DAYS ...

The Moon moves away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimeters per year — and we know this with millimetric precision thanks to laser retror...

"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" IS A MYTH (BU...

Pink Floyd's legendary album (1973) popularized the expression "dark side of the Moon," but it's scientifically incorrect. What exists is...

THE MOON HAS QUAKES (AND THEY LAST MU...

The Moon is seismically active. Seismographs left by the Apollo missions (1969-1972) detected four types of "moonquakes":

THERE ARE BILLIONS OF TONS OF WATER O...

In 2009, NASA's LCROSS mission definitively confirmed the presence of water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles. These...

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