Mr. Moon isn't walking away empty-handed.

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It is much more massive than the moon or Earth but also much farther away.

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Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 carried biology experiments known as Biostacks 1 and 2 beyond these belts (the moon is about 400, 000 kilometers away).

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Try this analogy (thanks to Veritasium.com): if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 24 feet away, and the Sun would be like a house nearly two miles away.

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People crowd the Togetsukyo Bridge (Moon Crossing Bridge) to take in the views, so head away from the main strip to get away from the hordes.

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If we had not thrown away the Saturn v rocket there could have been permanent lunar bases on the moon.

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Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general who was born just a few miles away, is honored with two sculptures.

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She stiffened and moved away from me, but I turned up the music and we settled back to drive and watch the moon come up.

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They are believed to have broken away from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and are our nearest neighbours in space after the Moon.

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