Moon Facts and Features
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Moon Facts and Features
Mission briefing: Moon facts
The Moon is Earth’s natural satellite. It travels around Earth in an orbit and is about 384,400 kilometres away on average. Its diameter is about one-quarter of Earth’s diameter. The Moon does not make its own light; sunlight reflects from its surface. As the Moon orbits Earth, we see different amounts of its sunlit half. These changing views are called phases. The Moon’s surface is rocky and dusty. Round craters formed when space rocks struck it. Some large, dark, fairly flat areas are called maria (MAR-ee-uh), meaning “seas”; they are not filled with water. The Moon has almost no atmosphere, so it has no weather like Earth’s. Earth’s atmosphere and active surface processes wear away many old craters over time.
Mission 1: Check the facts
Choose or write the best response for each mission question.
- It makes its own light.
- It reflects light from the Sun.
- It reflects light from Earth’s oceans.
- Crater
- Orbit
- Maria
- The path an object takes around another object
- A round hollow made by an impact
- Large, dark, fairly flat areas on the Moon
Mission 2: Explain what you observe
Use a fact and a reason in your explanations.
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