 The moon is as old as the Earth, 4.6 billion years old.

 The moon is ¼ the diameter of `earth .

 The moon is about 1/80 of Earth’s mass.

 Unlike planet Earth, the Moon has no gravity.(If you stepped there,

you will fly.)

 Craters
• The time that the moon takes
to spin around itself = the time
it needs to spin around the
Earth, Which exposes only one
of its face.

• When the sun is directly

behind plant Earth, you can
see the full moon in the sky at
night.
• It will always be dark around
you if you are on the surface
of the moon because the
moon has no atmosphere
(shield) to cover it.
• It is hit by many asteroids and
has many craters on its
surface.
• Asteroids are objects that fly in
space and hit the moon at a
very high speed.
• The moon takes about a month (28 to 30 days) to orbit
around the Earth . This causes the changing faces of the
moon to be repeated every month.
• The first man to set foot on the moon is Neil Armstrung in
July 1969.
• He said, “ That’s one small step for man, one giant leap
for mankind.”
• There were many attempts to explore the moon before
Armstrong.
1. Sputnik 1:
• The first artificial satellite.
• It was launched from Earth by the Soviet Union in 1957.
2. Yuri Gagarin :
• The Russian cosmonaut (astronaut) was the first one to
fly into outer space.
3. Luna 9:
• The first Russian spacecraft to land on the surface of the
moon in 1966to send photogarphic images of the moon
to the Earth.
4. Laika, the dog:
• It was sent by the Soviet Union in 1957.
5. Ham, the Chimp:
• A Champanzee trained by rocket scientists and was
sent in a capsule( a mean of transportation to carry
humans and animals into outer space) .
6. China :
• China is planning to send motorized rovers to collect soil
samples from the moon by 2018.
7. Russia:
• is planning to build a permanent man-base on the
moon’s surface by 2027-2032.
8. India:
• Landed a mechanical rovers on the moon’s surface by
2013 .
• It was dead because of the abnormality of a
mechanical control due to the complicated lunar
environment.