- The
first spacecraft to send back pictures of the far side of the Moon
was Luna 3 in October 1959. The photographs covered about 70
percent of the far side
- Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's
lunar module landed on the moon
- On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong's left foot touches the lunar
surface
- The temperature on the Moon reaches 243° F at midday on the
lunar equator. During the night, the temperature falls to -261°
F.
- When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact
caused the Moon's surface to vibrate for 55 minutes
- The average desktop computer contains 5-10 times more computing
power than was used to land a man on the moon
- Contrary to popular belief, the Moon does have an atmosphere. It
is very thin. If you took all of the molecules in one cubic
centimeter of atmosphere from the Moon and lined them up, they
would fit inside the period of this sentence. If you took a cubic
centimeter of atmosphere from the earth at sea level and lined all
of the molecules up, it would go from the earth to the Moon and
back again two and a half times.
- The footprints left by the Apollo astronauts will not erode
since there is no wind or water on the Moon. The footprints should
last at least 10 million years
- The Apollo missions returned 2196 rock samples, weighing 382kg
in total
- Light from the Moon takes about a second and a half to reach
Earth
- The Moon has no global magnetic field
- The dark spots on the moon that create the benevolent "man
in the moon" image are actually basins filled 3 to 8
kilometers deep with basalt, a dense mineral, which causes immense
gravitation variations
- Gravity on the Moon is a sixth of that on Earth
- When walking on the moon, astronaut Alan Sheppard hit a golf
ball that went 2,400 feet, nearly one-half a mile
- The volume of the Moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean
- There are over 500,000 craters on the moon visible from Earth
- The diameter of the largest crater on the moon is 144 miles
across
- The largest crater that can be seen on the Moon is called Bailly
or the 'fields of ruin.' It covers an area of about 26,000 square
miles, about the size of West Virginia, and over three time the
size of Wales
- Gene Cernan was the last man to step on the moon in 1972 |
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