The beautiful Moon which has romanticized humans across civilizations for thousands of years is unique to all of us. It is a kind of a gift for humans from the nature.

 It is neither a star nor a planet. It is a satellite of Earth and rotates about it.

Let us tell you a few interesting things about the moon.

•        It is a one fourth of size of the earth. The average distance from Moon’s Earth is 38465 km. The diameter of the Moon is approximately 3476 and the radius is 1738 km.

•        The moon revolves around the earth in approximately 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes and 15 seconds and rotates on its axis in the same time, this is the reason that only one part of the Moon appears from the Earth.

•        Lunar eclipse always happens to the full moon when the earth passes between the sun and the moon

•        Its highest mountain (height- 10668 m) is taller than Mount Everest (8848 m).

•        July 1969, Apollo-ll spacecraft landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are the first ones who have walked on the Moon.

•        The moon is as old as the earth is about 460 million years as it was a part of the Earth itself (millions of years ago).