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**  The Moon​**
 * SOME BASIC INFO**

The moon is Earths only moon, while other planets have lots of moons. The moon is also the Earths only natural light source at night, apart from the stars which don't provide much light at all, the moon glows because the suns rays hit the moon lighting it up at night, even though the sun is on the other side of the Earth. The first man to ever walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong and the second, he was on a mission to be the first man to walk on the moon with his co-captain Buzz Aldrin Because of the moons lack of liquid water, there is not much erosion, and craters are found that exceed over 2 billion years, scientists can estimate how old the craters are by seeing how many little craters are inside the bigger ones, some craters have been found in microscopic size in rocks that have been brought back to Earth from the moon. The biggest crater ever found on the moon was 360km in diameter which is the distance Canberra and Sydney 1 and a half times! The scale above represents the actual time it takes light to get from the Earth to the moon, 1.225 seconds.
 * CRATERS**

bottom:The "dark side"

top:The near side of the mooon

The so called "dark side" of the moon is an innacurate name, because it is illuminated as much as the side that faces the Earth.

IT'S ROLE FOR EARTH.

the moon helps Earth by providing us light at night time, without it, it would be very very dark.

Odd fact: did you know that the moon was originally thought to have come from the crust of the Earth when the Earth was hit by a giant metoerite?! <-- a picture from the moon of the Earth during the apollo 8 misssion in 1968