Days to the Moon
Age 7 · Astronomy
The Moon looks close in the sky, much closer than the planets. Even so, a rocket needs several days to fly there.
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- A car can cross a city in an hour, but a rocket to the Moon takes days.
- A bird can fly high above us, but it cannot reach the Moon.
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- The Moon is Earth’s nearest neighbour in space.
- Even the nearest space trip takes days, not minutes.
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