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title: "Shocking facts about the Moon!"  
description: "A short explanation about the moon and it's interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-06  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2794/shocking-facts-about-the-moon  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["Moon", "science", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Shocking facts about the Moon!

![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/c50f022d-dc7f-495f-8b01-f2edaa103584.jpeg) ![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/5b4c499f-ef5b-4c0e-bf3c-ebd24480dc49.jpeg) The Moon's tidal interaction with Earth causes it to drift away from the Earth at a pace of around 3.8 centimetres each year. ![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/513125cb-7c48-488c-beb0-ac8bf4b2282e.jpeg) Water ice has been detected in craters at the Moon's poles that are thought to have been deposited by comets and asteroids. ![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/7c2c9b2f-406b-4f68-99b9-59198dca139c.jpeg) The Moon's smells like gunpowder due to the presence of fine dust created by micrometeoroid impacts, rich in iron and other metals. ![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/a0edeb2c-bb0e-4a0b-9916-3255266593ce.jpeg) The Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest known impact crater in the Solar System, is believed to have formed early in its history. ![Shocking facts about the Moon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/98e48e5f-c987-4f94-bb73-77529875a50a/images/fa3af16d-f7c5-4233-9ef7-c87a5e722ee2.jpeg) It has quakes called Moonquakes, caused by Earth's and Sun's gravitational pull and meteorite impacts, which can last for hours or days on the Moon.

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