Amazing Facts about Moon


Facts about Moon (1-10)

1. Moon is not round, its shape is oval.


2. The moon is only 27 percent of the size of the earth.


3. The moon weighs about 81 billion tons


4. So far, only 12 people have been to the moon.


5. When Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, the mark made by him on the moon's land is still there


6. When astronaut Alan Sapard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball that went about 800 meters away.


7. If your weight is 60 kg on the earth, then due to the low gravity of the moon, your weight on the moon will be only 10 kg.


8. Black spots lying on the moon are called frogs on the moon in China.


9. So far the Apollo spacecraft has brought a total of 296 pieces of rock from the moon, whose mass (weight) was 382 kg.


Facts about Moon (10-20)

10. Only 59 percent of the moon is visible from the earth.


11. The moon keeps only one part of itself like the earth while moving around the earth, so till date no human has seen the other part of the moon from the earth.


12. The diameter of the moon is only a quarter of the Earth's diameter and about 49 moons can fit into the earth.


13. Do you know that the moon is moving 4 cm away from the earth every year.


14. After 50 billion years from now, the moon will complete one round of the earth in 47 days, which it is currently doing in 27.3 days.


15. The size of the moon is at number 5 in the 63 satellites of the solar system


16. NASA made a world record by providing internet facility on moon, whose speed is 19 Mbps.


17. The moon has no light. It is illuminated only by sunlight.


18. If there was no sun, we would never have been able to see the moon.


19. For the last 41 years no person has gone to the moon


20. 6 flags have been sculpted on the Moon, out of which 5 are still sculpted.