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.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid su
Moon
…The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,399 kilometers (238,854 mi), a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth. It completes an orbit…
Earth as seen from Meteosat-12 in 2025, during the March equinox
A depiction of the early Solar System's protoplanetary disk from which Earth and other Solar System bodies were formed
Pale orange dot, an impression of Early Earth, featuring its tinted orange methane-rich early atmosphere
A conception of the scorched Earth after the Sun has entered the red giant phase, about 5–7 billion years in the future