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Oct 17 | On the Moon, you only experience one-sixth of the gravity felt on Earth, so you’ll feel a lot lighter | |
Oct 15 | The Moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth. That’s enough room to fit about 30 Earths | |
Oct 14 | The moon's atmosphere consists of 100 molecules per cubic centimeter, which is far thinner than Earth's 100 billion billion per cm³ | |
Oct 11 | The highest point on the Moon is the Selenean summit, at 35,387 feet (10,785 m) tall, 20% higher than Earth's highest point, Mt Everest | |
Oct 10 | At about 18,000 feet (5486 meters), Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain on the Moon but not its highest summit | |
Oct 8 | Even though the Moon looks like a perfect sphere, it’s actually closer to the shape of an egg, with the broader end facing Earth | |
Oct 7 | The Moon completes its trip around the Earth in 27.3 days. But it needs 29.5 days to go through its phases | |
Oct 4 | The Apollo 17 astronauts could taste the Moon's fine dust. It smelled like burnt gunpowder | |
Oct 4 | The Apollo 17 astronauts could taste the Moon's fine dust. It smelled like burnt gunpowder | |
Oct 3 | Our solar system has over 200 moons, but ours is the fifth largest | |
Oct 1 | Clocks turned “Clockwise” because of sundials. As the sun moves across the Northern Hemisphere’s sky, the shadow it casts moves clockwise | |
Sep 30 | A group of penguins is called a colony, rookery, crèche, formality, huddle, parade, waddle, or parcel | |
Sep 30 | A group of penguins is called a colony, rookery, crèche, formality, huddle, parade, waddle, or parcel | |
Sep 27 | A group of owls is called a parliament, stare, wisdom, or sagaciousness | |
Sep 26 | A group of nouns is called a collective | |