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title: "Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn't know"  
description: "The moon or the Earth's Moon is an astronomical body that orbits the planet and acts as its only permanent natural satellite. Here's some facts about moon"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-27  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1422/interesting-facts-about-the-moon-we-bet-you-didn-t-know  
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 we bet you didn't know

![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/fe1ad0b1-7e19-4d27-85f7-eafed77d72a2.jpeg) ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/767e497b-6af2-490f-aa48-b2f5abda9500.jpeg) The moon is drifting away from the Earth ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/b923e1db-e4f4-4562-b983-be51cc2bf6de.jpeg) The moon always shows the same face to the Earth ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/6ea41e5d-66a6-4c50-9836-67c62919f93d.jpeg) The moon has no atmosphere ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/724a873b-7154-4c76-a6e5-e43b43810259.jpeg) During the 1950s, the USA considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/193941fe-7a11-4211-bf76-94b2db6b26c3.jpeg) The moon is the fifth-largest natural satellite ![Interesting facts about the moon we bet you didn t know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2c9b9726-f899-46c3-ae34-9f8332e58b37/images/1b3a62c2-2a84-447a-aef1-6c49507409dc.jpeg) Only 12 people have ever walked on the Moon

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