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How strong gravity is depends on the mass of both objects, as well as the distance between them. Because the Earth has a lot more mass than the moon, the force of gravity you experience on Earth ...

That means the level of gravity on the moon — about 17 percent of Earth's gravity — is just barely strong enough to provide adequate cues for astronauts to know which way is up.

The pull of lunar gravity will have accelerated the vehicle to about 5,700 miles an hour, and to enter the desired lunar orbit it must slow down to 3,720 miles an hour.

This latest mini-moon, 2024 PT5, was discovered in August by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a network of telescopes designed to detect objects close to Earth.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of ...

"On the moon, there is still gravity but it's very low," Jean Francois Clervoy, Novespace founder and retired French astronaut, who in 1999 flew to the Hubble Space Telescope, told Space.com.

The moon's diameter of about 2,160 miles (3,475 km) is a bit more than a quarter of Earth's diameter. The lunar mantle is the layer located beneath the crust and above the core, spanning a depth ...