About Moon

THE MOON

On most nights,you can see the moon in the sky.Sometimes it is very bright,large and round.At other times,you might see only a tiny sliver of it or clouds might cover it.For thousands ofyears,people have watced the moon and told stories about it.

Scientist believe the moon was created 4.5 million years ago when the unıverse was created.We are not sure,but scientist think a large chunk of rock might have collied with the newly farmigo Earth and broken off a piece of the Earth ,which created the moon.

The moon has no atmosphere,it gets very hot and cold.when the Sun is shining the moon is 250 degres Fahrenheit.When it is dark,the temperature reaches -280 degress Ffahrenheit.

the Moon orbits the Earth ,but it is also spinning at the some time.
the moon takes abot 29 days to orbit the Earth.During this time ,your view of it changes ,dependingon the moon's position.

The moon creates the Earth tides on the side of the Earth.That is closest to the moon the moon'gravity palls the waters of the oceans up slightly,resulting in high tide.

The moon helps regulate our seasons and weather.

Moon Vocabulary
Silver:a tiny piece
Calide:crash,run into
Meteor:falling rocks or debris from space
Tide:the ebb and flow of water in the ocean.

You can see the surface of the moon by using a pair of bioculars or a small telescope.The Moon's surface shows the damage caused by these large pieces of rock hitting it billions of years ago.The surface is covered to craters,pits and scars.

From the Earth we can only see one side of the Moon;the other side is always turned away from us.Photograps fromm space show a similar scarred surface on the other side.

The Earth has a much grater surface than the Moon and was also hitby debris(the rocks from explosions and collisions) but over time the damage has disappear.The wind and rain in tha Earth's atmosphere has helped to erade the pits and craters.

The Moon has no atmosphere and so we can still see the damage caused billions of years ago.

If you look at the Moon when it is nearly full you can see the dark areas which are known as the seas.They are all given Latin names .These are not really seas but are huge exponses of smooth dark lava.

The waxing Moon.''Waxing'' means growing.After the new moon appears in the sky as a tiny sliver of light the moon waxes.It grows into a crescent,curving to your left as you look at it and then into a half moon.This takes a week and so the period is described as the Moon's first quarter.

The Waxing gibbous Moon.Gibbous means humped and describes the sharpe of the Moon as it grows from a half moon to a full moon.Another week has passed and this is the Moon's second quarter.

The waning Moon.''waining means shrinking.Now the Moon begins to get smaller again-it ''wanes''.The third quarter takes us from or full moon to a half moon again,but this time it is the right hand side of the moon that shines.The waning crescent Moon.The last quareter takes us from a half moon back to a crescent moon,facing right,and to a point where the moon dissepears.

The first man to make proper maps of the moon was Galileo.Galileo did not invent the telescope but by 1609.He had developed a telescope that could magnify objects to 20 times,and with this telescope.He begon his careful study of the Moon's surface.