moon · the Solar System
The Moon
Earth's tidally locked companion, with polar ice in permanently shadowed craters.
- Type
- Moon
- Orbits
- Earth
- Distance
- in the Solar System
- Diameter
- about 3,475 km
- Rotation
- Tidally locked: one side always faces Earth
About The Moon
- The Moon orbits about 384,400 kilometres from Earth.
- Twelve people walked on it during the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.
- The surface relief in IKAREE comes from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter elevation data.
Visit The Moon in VR
In IKAREE, The Moon is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Moon. Full impulse.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Moon, Captain.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Moon.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
