10 Stunning Shots Of Moon Captured By NASA
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National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) frequently shares stunning pictures of moon. Let's take a look at some of them
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In Latin, the Moon was called Luna, which is the main adjective for all things Moon-related: lunar
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With a radius of about 1,080 miles (1,740 kilometers), the Moon is less than a third of the width of Earth
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The Moon is an average of 384,400 kilometers away. That means 30 Earth-sized planets could fit in between Earth and the Moon
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The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, getting about an inch farther away each year
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The Moon is rotating at the same rate that it revolves around Earth (called synchronous rotation), so the same hemisphere faces Earth all the time
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The leading theory of the Moon's origin is that a Mars-sized body collided with Earth about 4.5 billion years ago
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Earth's Moon has a core, mantle, and crust
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The Moon has a very thin and weak atmosphere, called an exosphere
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