Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Descriptive text : Moon



Moon is the earth's satellite which we often see in the night.
The Moon is the one place in our solar system where humans have visited.
For the firs time on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.
However do you know what descriptive facts about the Moon are?

The moon rises in the east and sets in the west.
It moves toward the east in our sky by about 12 degrees each day.
The Moon is about 384,400 kilometers from Earth.
The Moon has a diameter of 2,000 miles which is like to 3,476 kilometers.

The moon influences many of the tides in the oceans. This is because of the gravity force between the Earth and Moon.
At full Moon and new Moon, the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides.
When the Moon is at first or last quarter, it forms smaller neap tides.

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