Moon

Moon

•Lunar is the adjective of Moon.
•The moon is earth's natural satellite and it is our nearest neighbour in space.
•The moon is about one-fourth the size of earth.
•The moon takes 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes and 1 seconds to complete one revolution around earth.
•Moon light reaches earth in about 1.3 seconds.
•Lunar Eclipse happens when the Earth comes between the moon and the sun. A lunar eclipse occurs, only on a new moon day.
•America took the lead by landing a man on the moon in July 1969.
•Neil Armstrong was the first astronaut to land on moon in Apollo 11.
•Ocean of Storms is the name of a waterless spot on the moon.
•The element found on the surface of the moon is titanium.
•The first spacecraft to land on the moon was Luna9 (1966) of the erstwhile USSR.
•Sea of Tranquility is the place on moon where Apollo landed. -
•The mean distance between earth and moon is 3,84, 400 km.
•The average orbital speed of moon is 3,680 km hour.
•Over 59°'0 of the moon's surface is directly visible from Earth.Diameter: 3. 476 km.
•Six American spacecraft from 1969 to 1972 brought astronauts to walk on the surface of moon.

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