Top 15 facts about Moon!

 1.The Moon's surface is actually dark. .

2.The Moon is drifting away from the Earth.

3.The Moon was made when a rock smashed into Earth

4.The Moon makes the Earth move as well as the tides.

5.The Moon has quakes too.

6.The dark side of the moon is a myth.

7.The Moon has no atmosphere

8.The Moon has only been walked on by 12 people; all American men

9. Moon is 4.53 billion years old

10.Moon's Its surface is home to mountains, huge craters and flat planes called ‘seas’ made of hardened lava.

11.The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite .

12. It takes 27.3 days for the Moon to travel all the way around the Earth and complete its orbit.

13.The temperature on the Moon varies from super hot to super cold! When the Sun hits its surface, temperatures can reach a scorching 127°C. But when the Sun ‘goes down’, temperatures can plummet to around -153°C

14. The diameter of moon is 3,474.2 Km 

15.The distance of moon from Earth is 384,400 km.