1. There is no wind or weather on the Moon. Footprints left 40 years ago by the astronauts are still there!

2. The moon does not make its own light. "Moonlight" is really sunlight reflected on the Moon's surface.

3. The Moon is about 239,000 miles from Earth. If you could get there by car it would take you about 130 days!

4. The Moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans, causing tides to form. Gravity is a force of nature that tries to pull two bodies in the universe together. It is gravity that holds you on the ground.

5. In China, instead of seeing "the man in the Moon," people see "the hare in the Moon."

6. The Moon travels in a circle around earth. This path is called an orbit

7. As the Moon orbits Earth, it looks as though it gets fuller and then thinner. But the Moon does not change shape. We just see different parts of it lit by the Sun. The changing look is called "the phases of the Moon."