What are 3 facts about the Moon?

Back to the Moon

The Moon’s surface is actually dark.
The Sun and the Moon are not the same size.
The Moon is drifting away from the Earth.
The Moon was made when a rock smashed into Earth.
The Moon makes the Earth move as well as the tides.
The Moon has quakes too.
There is water on the Moon!

What are 3 facts about the Sun?

Here are more fun facts about the sun, provided by the NASA Science Space Place:

The sun is a star.
The sun is the closest star to our planet, which is why we see the sun so big and bright.
The Earth orbits around the sun.
The sun is way bigger than the Earth.
It’s hot!!
The sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.

What are some facts about the Sun and moon?

The Sun warms our planet, and with the Moon, creates the tides. The Moon orbits the Earth and in turn, the Earth orbits the Sun. We see the Universe from a platform that is both rotating on its axis, and traveling in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.

What are 10 facts about the Sun?

Ten Interesting Facts About the Sun

The Sun is the Solar System.
And the Sun is mostly hydrogen and helium.
The Sun is pretty bright.
The Sun is huge, but tiny.
The Sun is middle aged.
The Sun has layers.
The Sun is heating up, and will kill all life on Earth.
Different parts of the Sun rotate at different speeds.

What are five facts about the sun?

Facts about the Sun

The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.
Over one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun.
One day the Sun will consume the Earth.
The energy created by the Sun’s core is nuclear fusion.
The Sun is almost a perfect sphere.
The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.

Is the Moon hot or cold?

Temperatures on the moon are very hot in the daytime, about 100 degrees C. At night, the lunar surface gets very cold, as cold as minus 173 degrees C. This wide variation is because Earth’s moon has no atmosphere to hold in heat at night or prevent the surface from getting so hot during the day.

How old is the moon?

4.53 billion years
Moon/Age

Scientists looked to the moon’s mineral composition to estimate that the moon is around 4.425 billion years old, or 85 million years younger than what previous studies had proven.

How big is the moon?

1,737.4 km
Moon/Radius

What Colour is the moon?

So there’s your answer; the Moon’s true color is grey, but appears to us in whatever color the Earth’s atmosphere makes it appear. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

How hot is the moon?

When sunlight hits the moon’s surface, the temperature can reach 260 degrees Fahrenheit (127 degrees Celsius). When the sun goes down, temperatures can dip to minus 280 F (minus 173 C).

What are 3 physical features of the Sun?

Some features of the Sun’s surface include sunspots, solar flares, and prominences.

Why is the sun hot?

The core of the sun is so hot and there is so much pressure, nuclear fusion takes place: hydrogen is changed to helium. Nuclear fusion creates heat and photons (light). The sun’s surface is about 6,000 Kelvin, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit (5,726 degrees Celsius).

What are 5 facts about the Sun?

By weight, Sun comprises of 73% hydrogen, 25% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements. By volume, Sun comprises of 92.1% hydrogen, 7.8% helium and 0.1% all other elements. The Sun is at a mean distance of 149.60 million km from Earth.

Is the Sun and the Moon the same thing?

The Sun and the Moon are the Same Size. When we look at the Sun and the Moon with our own two eyes, they appear from our perspective to be almost exactly the same size.

Does the Sun have more gravity than the Moon?

The mass of the Sun is about 27 million times more than the mass of the Moon. It’s this gravitational interaction that gives the Earth its orbit around the Sun, and the tiny pull of the Moon just causes the Earth to wobble a bit in its movements.

What does the Sun and Moon have in common?

It’s kind of a meaningless question as you’ve phrased it. The Sun the The Moon are (roughly) the same age, and formed from the same protostellar nebula. That’s about the only thing they have in common. Oh, they’re both approximately spherical too.