We all see moon at the night time and day time as well, now lets know what exactly the moon is and what is moon and what makes moon shine and what few more topics of moon deeply about moon and know more about our moon.
Moon is an astronomical body which orbits planet earth and moon is a permanent natural satellite of and moon is 5th largest natural satellite in the solar system and Moon is a big ball of rock that round and round on the earth.
Moon is in synchronous rotation with the earth and as it seen from earth moon is the second brightest visible celestial object in earths sky after the sun.
What makes the moon shine:
How can sun make the moon shine :
The sun and the moon are always on the sky at the same time but because the earth goes around the sun and the moon around the earth the sun can sometimes shine only a little a bit of light on the moon space but some times the moon is in the part of the sky where we see sunshine on its whole phase and then we have a full moon.
Does the moon take long time to go around the earth:
It takes a full day go around the earth so during the day we don’t se the moon very often because its shining on the other side of the earth.
Is the moon very far away :
Apollo mission which took place it took 3 days to reach the moon. Right now moon is around more than 238,000 miles which is 384,400 kilometres away from the earth but when the moon is formed it was 14,000 miles away from the earth thus our ancestors saw a different kind of moon light and moon as the moon is moving away far from the earth. Point of the moon orbit closest to the earth is called the perigee and the point farthest away is called Apogee.
Yes moon is very far away but needs time to travel as its very close to the earth. Yes we need a very powerful of spaceship to travel there.
What could you do if you go to the moon:
The man who landed on the moon was able to walk around and explore they pickup rocks and brought back to the earth so scientists can steady them to learn more about the moon and the moon has lots of big and small holes called craters.
How did the craters get on the moon :
Meteoroids which made up of piece of rock and metal crash into the moon and made the holes.