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title: "Interesting facts about the moon"  
description: "The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is about one-quarter of Earth in diameter. In the Solar System the Moon is the fifth largest satellite."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-10  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1271/interesting-facts-about-the-moon  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["Moon", "space", "Moon facts", "Moon Landing", "natural satelite", "satelite"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Interesting facts about the moon

![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/6943342d-8ec8-4166-90a2-788dea222fb4.jpeg) ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/58fae673-e29d-4acb-8898-0a3175bc400a.jpeg) The Moon is Earth's only permanent natural satellite ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/a7aa150d-721d-4379-b144-2e37d74bf0c8.jpeg) The Moon is the second densest satellite ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/8687ef29-368c-4db3-a364-b7b0f5a1bee9.jpeg) The Moon always shows Earth the same face ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/7b23f6fa-1ca7-4fbb-acbe-a34925f588c3.jpeg) The Moon has quakes too ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/cde257c3-6cdd-4005-8099-7799a49e59e2.jpeg) The Moon’s surface is actually dark ![Interesting facts about the moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e0c73cff-882f-4d92-bfc3-9864e2f19e65/images/edfd418d-309f-4166-a689-b5a6f1fd3f06.jpeg) The Moon is drifting away from the Earth

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