[Moon fact 1] The entire surface of the moon is covered in a layer of crushed and powdered rocks called regolith (from the Greek rhegos = blanket + lithos = rock). The dust is a result of millions of years of bombardment from space by tiny micrometeorites.
[Moon fact 2] Several ancient civilizations practiced Venus worship in some form or another, and surprisingly veneration of the planet has persisted until modern times. It has been suggested that human sacrifices were offered to the planet as late as the nineteenth century by Polynesian cultures and the Skidi Pawnee Indians in North America.
[Moon fact 3] There are three kinds of moon rocks: basalt (dark), anorthosite (light), and breccia (a mixture of several rocks). These types of rocks are also found on Earth.
[Moon fact 4] If Uranus were hollow, about 50 planet Earths could fit inside.
[Moon fact 5] The driest place on earth is Chile’s Atacama Desert. Rain has never been recorded in parts of the desert.
[Moon fact 6] Of all the planets, Mercury has the most eccentric, or elliptical, orbit.
[Moon fact 7] Galileo Galilei was the first person to see Saturn through a telescope, in 1610. He thought the rings looked like “ears” and were “handles” or moons. In a secret anagram to his scientist friend Kepler, Galileo wrote he had discovered that the “highest planet” was “triple-bodied.”
[Moon fact 8] Blue, green, and hazel eyes all exist thanks to a genetic mutation; brown was the only eye color present in humans until about 6,000 years ago.
[Moon fact 9] The same side of the moon always faces Earth because the moon takes the same length of time to rotate once as it does to travel all way around Earth.
[Moon fact 10] Earth has about seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains of sand. Still, the known universe contains 70 thousand million, million, million stars in the observable universe, which means there about 10,000 stars for every grain of sand.
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