The moon is our satellite and it is full of curious, fantastic, incredible and mythical facts that perhaps you did not know. Here are 10 of them.
Fun facts about the moon
- A 45-kilogram person on earth would weigh only 8.05 kilograms on the moon .
- Without a special suit, the blood would instantly boil.
- On the moon it is impossible to whistle or hear any sound because it has no atmosphere. For this reason, the sky seen from the moon is always black.
- Scientists believe that the moon is the result of a great collision between a wandering planet called TEA, with Earth.
- The temperature on the moon is crazy; they can rise as high as 123 degrees Celsius in the day and drop to -233 degrees at night.
- More people have reached the moon than the depths of the oceans.
- Since Roman times, higher fertility in women has been associated with the days of the new moon , although there is no scientific study to support this.
- What has been proven is that the moon has an effect on the tides in the oceans. This attracts the water from the oceans with its gravity, creating the tides. Hence we have high tides and low tides.
- The dark areas that we see on the moon are rocky craters that were the result of the collision of large meteorites on the lunar surface . The clear areas are mountains. The highest point on the moon is called Selenean Summit and reaches 10,786 meters high.
- During lunar eclipses , the surface temperature can drop to as low as -300 graph Celsius.
