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In the Solar System

Moon

The Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest in the Solar System: a quarter of the Earth's width, an eightieth of its mass, with no atmosphere to speak of and a surface that swings between about 120 °C in sunlight and −170 °C at night. It is locked to the Earth by tides, so the same face is always turned this way, and it is drifting away at about 3.8 cm a year - measured by bouncing lasers off the reflectors Apollo and Lunokhod left behind.

Radius
1,737 km
Turns once in
27.3 d

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