Love A Gorgeous Moonlit Night? Here Are 7 Little-Known Facts About The Moon

by N/A, 8 years ago | 1 min read

The moon is beautiful and fascinating–and also a bit mysterious.

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1. We aren't 100% sure about how the moon was created.

Some think that the moon was originally a large piece of rock that broke off from Earth billions of years ago, but no one really knows.

2. Change in your sleeping pattern? It's possible the moon is affecting you.

Supposedly, during different cycles of the moon, your sleep cycles will change as well.

3. Walking on the moon is actually very difficult.

You'd think it would be fun to move around in low gravity, but space suits are very heavy, and astronauts have to slowly hop around.

4. Someone is buried on the moon.

Well, sort of. At his request, the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, a deceased NASA scientist, were scattered on the moon.

5. Some believe the moon may have once been home to lifeforms.

Photographs of the moon exist that show inexplicable "things." Even NASA can't explain the phenomena that occur in some photographs; it's thought by some that these "things" are possibly geological formations or former locations of structures that housed humanoid, alien life forms. Emphasis on the "possibly."

6. The moon experiences earthquakes.

7. If you visit the moon, your shadow will appear darker.

That's because it is. On Earth, light is scattered by the air. This explains why objects out of direct sunlight are still visible. On the moon, there is no air to scatter light. Thus, things blocked from sunlight appear much darker.