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Moon Facts

Did you know the moon is not round? It's actually a slightly flattened spheroid shape, with a equatorial radius of 1,800 miles and a polar radius of 1,400 miles. Who knew?

And did you know that moon rocks are not actually rocks? They're actually just really old, really hard, space cookies that have been baked by the intense heat of the sun.

Interesting Moon Stats

Surface area: 14,000,000 sq miles

Volume: 2,190,000,000 sq miles

Orbit speed: 3,600 mph

Orbit distance: 238,900 miles

Gravity: 1/6 of Earth's gravity

Learn more about moon eclipses See the phases of the moon explained