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Size and Distance
Size and Distance
With a radius of about 1,080 miles (1,740 kilometers), the Moon is less than a third of the width of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, the Moon would be about as big as a coffee bean.
The Moon is an average of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. That means 30 Earth-sized planets could fit in between Earth and the Moon.
The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, getting about an inch farther away each year.
Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One (PM1) Peregrine Lander
A natural color view at a high northern latitude. Imbrium and Serenitatis are at the bottom of the frame. The large dark spot near the north pole is the crater Rozhdestvenskiy. Below it along the terminator are Peary and Byrd, craters named for explorers of the Earth's poles.
Source: LOLA Stills for AGU 2010
Released Friday, December 17, 2010
Visualizations by: Ernie Wright
A natural color view of southern latitudes. Smooth, circular Shackleton crater sits almost directly on the south pole. Irregular, oblong Cabeus, to its upper left, was the site of the LCROSS impact.
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