The Moon Is Unconventionally Beautiful
The Moon is unconventionally beautiful
The Moon is round, blotchy, spotty, rough-skinned, 'imperfect'. Try and tell me The Moon isn't beautiful.
Take a picture of The Moon with your phone. Looks bad, right? Cameras have a habit of taking something beautiful and making it look bad.
[Image description: a dark, blurry iPhone picture of the Moon and some distant artificial lights. The only detail that can be made out is the crescent shape. End ID]
Some more facts about The Moon
The surface is darker than asphalt.
It isn't symmetrical. The farside has more craters and less maria than the nearside.
Some people see a face on it. This is known as 'The Man on The Moon'
It takes moonlight 1.2 seconds to reach Earth at the speed of light
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