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The Moon Lot's of planets have lots of moons. But Earth only has one moon. It can be seen all year round by everyone on Earth.

the centre-the-centre distance from Earth to moon is 384,403 km. The diameter is 3476km and it's mass is 7.35e22kg. Did you know that the Moon always faces the same side to Earth.

On the moon some different spots are darker than others. that is because many years ago there was lots of comets and asteroids more than today hit our Solar System. the moon was first observed in 1959.

In 1969 20th of July Neil Armstrong stepped out on to the moon. Neil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5th of August. He was a former American astronaut, test pilot and United States naval Aviator. His first space flight was aboarded Gemini 1966.