Moon of Earth

Moon

Twelve people have walked here, all between 1969 and 1972. It always shows Earth the same face and drifts 3.8 cm farther away every year.

Can we live on the Moon?

Air: only a faint trace of He, Ar, Ne, Na, K, far too thin to breathe. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.

Gravity: 0.17 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 12 kg there.

Temperature: −173 to 127 °C.

Ground: Basalt seas and bright highland rock; a near-vacuum exosphere.

Measured by LADEE, Apollo