Moon
The Earth’s only natural satellite, which always turns the same face towards us as it goes through its phases.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Diameter
- 3,475 km, a little over a quarter of the Earth’s
- Distance from the Earth
- 384,400 km on average
- Goes once around the Earth in
- 27.3 days
- From one full Moon to the next
- 29.53 days
- Mass
- 1.2 % of the Earth’s
- Brightness when full
- Magnitude −12.74
Figures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA fact sheets. All sources