World
The Moon
The Moon is the Earth’s own moon, about 3 475 km across.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Diameter
- 3 475 km
- Goes round
- Earth
See it from here
You can see this one with your own eyes.
How the map draws it
Lit as a camera exposed for its own sunlight would show it · seen from far off it is a light at its computed brightness: the glow is how a camera records a point too bright to resolve · its dark side glows with earthshine, the Earth’s own light, drawn 250 times brighter than that camera would catch it, about as the eye sees it.