the Moon part 2the Moon part 2
A lunor month is the time between
one Full Moon and the next. This is
slighty longer than the time the moon
takes to orbit the Earth because the
Earth is also moving.
The Moon has no atmophere and its
surface is simply gray dust pitted with
crators created by meteories smoshing
into it early in its history.
On the Moon's surface one large
dark patches called seas because that
is what people once believed they were
They are in fact Java flows from
ancient valconoes.
One side of the Moon is always
turned away from us and is called its
dark sides this is because the moon
spins around on its axis at exactly the
same speed that it orbits the Earth.
The moon is relatively close to the
Earth and therefore seem much
larger than the stars.
The moon's gravity is
17 percent of the Earth's
so astronouts in space suits
can jump 13 ft high.
The changes from New to Full
Moon and back again are called
the phases of the Moon. The full cycle
from New to Full and takes one month.