• Key Information

  • The Moon

  • Type
    Moon (of Earth)
  • Diameter
    1,079.6 miles
  • Distance from Earth
    238,854 miles
  • Orbit Time
    27 days 7 hours 43 minutes
  • Length of Day
    27 days 7 hours 43 minutes
  • Time around Sun
    1 Earth year
  • Atmosphere
    None
  • Temperature
    284 °F down to −275.8 °F
  • Date of Discovery
    Unknown
  • Learning Point
  • The Moon is a natural satellite, or moon, that orbits our home, Earth. It lights up the sky at night, and even helps us tell the time.
  • Project
  • Draw the moon, or a phase of the moon from Earth or the Earth when we are stood on the moon.
  • Location
  • Located in
    Solar System, orbiting Earth
  • Fun Facts
  • We call moons of other planets moons because of the Moon around our planet.
  • Twelve men have walked on the Moon, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin being the first two people to do so.
  • The other ten men are: Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, John W. Young, Charles M. Duke, Eugene Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt
  • The Moon spins at the same rate as it goes around the Earth, which means that it always shows the same side to us.
  • The Moon also causes the tides we have on Earth in the seas and oceans.