MOON PHASES

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10 FACTS ABOUT THE MOON

• The moon is slowly drifting away from the earth.
• The moon has moonquakes.
• The moon is the fifth largest natural satellite.
• The us considered detenating a muclear bomb on the moon.
• The moon has no atmosphere.

CONTINUING THE TEN FACTS

• The dark side of the moon is just a myth.
• The moon causes the tides of earth to rise and fall.
• The first space craft to land on the moon was the luna 1.
• That space craft landed in 1959.
• The moon will be visited by man in the near future.

THE NEW MOON

FULL MOON

WAXING CRESENT

FIRST QUARTER

WAXING GIBUS

WAINING CRESENT

LAST QUARTER

WAINING GIBUS

THE MOON CYCLE IS 29.5 DAYS

The moon effects the tides because it has a small gravitational pull. that is strong enough to pull on the tides but not the people on earth.

You can only see one side of the moon because the earth is revolving around the sun in a way that covers some of the moon

The moon takes 27 days to rotate once.