The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,399 kilometers, a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth. It completes an orbit in relation
The near side of the Moon with the lunar north pole at the top
Size comparison of the main moons of the Solar System with Earth to scale. Nineteen moons are large enough to be round, several having subsurface oceans and one, Titan, having a considerable atmosphere.
Surveyor 7 observes levitating dust, a phenomenon named Lunar horizon glow can be seen
Astronaut Charles Duke working on the Moon with his suit covered in lunar dust. Lunar dust is highly abrasive and can cause damage to human lungs and nervous and cardiovascular systems.
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a crewed or robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, and the first crewed mission to land on
A still frame from a video transmission, taken moments before Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon, at 02:56 UTC on 21 July 1969. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.
The view through the window of the Lunar Module Orion shortly after Apollo 16's landing
The first image of another world from space, returned by Luna 3, showed the far side of the Moon in October 1959.
A 1963 conceptual model of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module