An Italian proverb says, “If the Sun shines on me, I care not for the Moon.” It's a flippant remark, as the Earth’s satellite is some simple thing not worthy of consideration. And we're going to share the most interesting facts about the Moon with you; it might change your mind about the moon's simplicity.

Did you know, for example, that there are huge temperature fluctuations on the Moon? Or that its gravity is only 1/6th that of the Earth’s. If your weight here is 100 pounds, you’ll only weigh 17 pounds standing on the Moon’s surface. You would also be able to walk a distance 6 times longer and carry a weight 6 times heavier there.

TIMESTAMPS:
How it was formed 0:33
How big it is 1:32
What is the temperature on the Moon? 2:53
Why we see the same side of it 3:18
Why the other side of the Moon is more mountainous 3:45
The greatest crater 4:21
Moonquakes 4:42
The Moon’s gravity 4:52
Is lunar dust dangerous? 5:28
Shadows on the Moon 6:11
Trees from the Moon 7:42
Fresh tracks on the Moon’s surface 8:10
Its own time zone 8:51
Why nothing can grow there 9:16
What Lunar seas look like 9:51

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SUMMARY:
The Moon is not an ideal sphere. It's shaped more like an egg because of the Earth’s gravity.
We can see solar eclipses pretty often, but moon eclipses only happen once every several hundred years.
Although the Moon seems really bright, its ability to reflect sunlight is 3 times less than that of Earth.
It would take about 300,000 Moons to produce as much light at night as there is in the afternoon. About 206,000 of them would have to be full.
The gravitational influence of the Moon has this effect on the oceans. The highest tide can be seen at full or new Moon.
It was only in 1959 that people could finally see the other side of Moon, thanks to a photo taken by the Russian spacecraft “Luna 3”.
Craters on the Moon were first named after famous scientists, artists and researchers, and later – after American and Russian astronauts.
There's water on the Moon, but leave your straw at home; it's all frozen in the craters and under the ground.
Longdistance jumps can be uncontrolled and dangerous, as the Moon’s surface is full of deep craters.
The Moon does have a kind of atmosphere, which is called an exosphere. It consists of helium, neon and argon. It’s ten trillion times less dense than on Earth.
The absence of oxygen in the atmosphere means that the sky is utterly black while the sun continues to glare.
The Moon is the only space body outside the Earth where humans have landed. So far.
Modern smartphones are more powerful than the computers that were used to land the “Apollo” spaceship on the Moon.
12 people have been to the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the first one in 1969, and Eugene Cernan, the last, in 1972.
There are 200 tons of space junk on the Moon. Actually it’s experiments, usedup backpacks and the like, left by NASA astronauts, who landed on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

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