Our Moon is bigger than Pluto. And at roughly one-fourth the diameter of Earth, some scientists think the Moon is more like a planet.
Moon rocks are older than earth rocks.
The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun but 1/400th the distance between the Earth and the Sun, thus Moon and Sun appear to us as the same size.
The chemical composition of the dust on the moon rocks is remarkable different to the rocks themselves.
The heavier elements are on the surface and not the interior.
Lunar instruments detected water vapour.
When struck the moon reverberates. See reports from Apollo 12 and Apollo 13. Reverberations lasted 3 hrs 20 mins in the last instance.
The gray orb isn't a totally dead place, geologically speaking it has small moonquakes, but no volcanoes.
The Moon is not round (or spherical). Instead, it's shaped like an egg.
Perhaps the coolest thing about the Moon is that it always shows us the same face. Since both the Earth and Moon are rotating and orbiting, how can this be? (coincidental?)
Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, near perfect circular orbit.
Our moon is the biggest in the solar system.
There are reports of amazing ‘structures’ on the moon… verified by scientists.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Walter Schirra, James Lovell, Gordon Cooper - all astronauts – have all gone public re aliens on the moon.
The ancients spoke of seven planets which they called the seven sacred planets, and they were named as follows: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Moon.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth