• Question: Who many cm is the moon

    Asked by Jam to Áine, Victoria, Lydia, Eoin, Ciarán on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Heya Jam,

      The moon is roughly a quarter (27 percent) the size of Earth and only the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
      The moon’s surface area is about 14.6 million square miles (=38 million square kilometers), which is 380 000 000 000 000 000 square centimetres!

      That’s actually less than the total surface area of the continent of Asia!

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