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Moon
- The Earth's only permanent natural satellite. It is one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar
System, and the largest among planetary satellites relative to the size of the planet that it orbits.

- Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other
mythologies.

- There are a lot of theories how the moon formed but the most widely accepted explanation is
that the Moon formed from the debris left over after a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-
sized body called Theia.

- Its gravitational influence produces the ocean tides, body tides, and the slight lengthening of
the day.

- The Moon has a solid iron-rich inner core with a radius of 240 km (150 mi) and a fluid outer
core primarily made of liquid iron with a radius of roughly 300 km (190 mi). Around the core is
a partially molten boundary layer with a radius of about 500 km (310 mi)

- The Moon is in synchronous rotation: it rotates about its axis in about the same time it takes
to orbit Earth.

- The Moon is exceptionally large relative to Earth: a quarter its diameter and 1/81 its mass.
- Earth and the Moon are nevertheless still considered a planetsatellite system, rather than
a double planet, because their barycentre, the common centre of mass, is located 1,700 km
(1,100 mi) (about a quarter of Earth's radius) beneath Earth's surface.

- It is sometimes classified as a terrestrial "planet" along with Mercury,Venus, Earth and Mars.

- The Moon has no atmosphere. But evidence from Clementine suggested that there may be
water ice in some deep craters near the Moon's south pole which are permanently shaded.

- With no atmosphere and no magnetic field, the Moon's surface is exposed directly to the solar
wind.

- The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959.

- On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the surface of the Moon.
He was followed by Edwin Aldrin, both of the Apollo 11 mission. They and other moon walkers
experienced the effects of no atmosphere.

- In the summer of 1994, the Moon was very extensively mapped by the little
spacecraft Clementine and again in 1999 by Lunar Prospector.

- The Moon is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles) distant from the Earth. Its diameter is 3,476
kilometers (2,160 miles). Both the rotation of the Moon and its revolution around Earth takes 27
days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes.

- The Moon used to rotate at a faster rate, but early in its history, its rotation slowed and
became tidally locked in this orientation as a result of frictional effects associated
with tidal deformations caused by Earth.

- The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side the far side.
The far side is often inaccurately called the "dark side".
- There are two primary types of terrain on the Moon: the heavily cratered and very
old highlands and the relatively smooth and younger maria. The maria (which comprise about 16%
of the Moon's surface) are huge impact craters that were later flooded by molten lava.

- The relatively bright, heavily cratered highlands are called terrae.

- During the Middle Ages, before the invention of the telescope, the Moon was increasingly
recognized as a sphere, though many believed that it was "perfectly smooth".]In 1609, Galileo
Galilee drew one of the first telescopic drawings of the Moon in his book Sidereus Nunciusand
noted that it was not smooth but had mountains and craters.

- A total of 382 kg of rock samples were returned to the Earth by the Apollo and Luna programs.