Walking around the moon sounds like an impossible task. Even astronauts don’t walk on the surface of the moon—they float in zero gravity instead. So how do you walk around the moon? It’s a common question and one that seems to have an uncommon answer. The phrase ‘walk around the moon is also commonly used as a metaphor for someone who is in love with someone who does not reciprocate their feelings. In this sense, it generally means to go somewhere that feels a lot like being in love with someone who does not return your affection: trying to walk around the moon so that you are no longer there. In this blog post, we explore how astronauts walk around the Moon, what walking around the Moon means, and more.
How Do You Walk Around The Moon?
1. The Moon Is Not A Planet
The Moon is a satellite orbiting the Earth. It was created by the Earth’s gravity pulling on the Earth-Moon system in such a way that the Earth’s gravity pulled the Moon into orbit around itself, forming an egg shape around the Earth. The word ‘moon’ comes from Old English ‘mōna’ which means ‘monthly visitor’, as it becomes visible each month when it moves between our orbit and that of the Sun.
2. It Takes Three Days To Make One Complete Rotation Around Its Axis (24 Hours)
The Moon does not rotate like a planet does: instead it rotates around its axis three times for every two revolutions of its orbit around the Earth – i.e., once for each day of its orbit. This means that, over time, our view of the Moon changes from one side to another because we are seeing different parts at different times—it takes about a day for us to see half of one side and another day to see half of another side; then it takes another day to see half again, and so on… As we look at different areas in our sky at different times, we see different parts of our moon depending on where (and when) we look!
3. The Moon Has No Atmosphere; It Is Airless!
This means that there is no air pressure which would make walking on the surface of the Moon a challenge. It would be like walking on the surface of the Sun.
4. The Moon Has No Weather Patterns!
We can see weather patterns on our planet because the atmosphere bends light around, creating color and shape in clouds and making rainbows. So how do we know what the weather will be like on the Moon? There is no atmosphere to bend light around, so there is no way to see what our sky will look like from there. No clouds mean that we can’t see very far in any direction—we can only see about 100 miles (160 km) away from us at most! So it’s not that easy to say ‘it will be raining there’ or ‘there will be a rainbow here’—you just never know…
5. The Moon Does Not Have Seasons!
The seasons are created by sunlight hitting our planet, with different areas of land receiving different amounts of sunlight at different times of year—this causes areas with more sunlight to get warmer and dry out during summer while other areas get colder and wetter in winter. This means that each area has a certain amount of sun each day, which creates its climate pattern that changes over time as days pass. On the Moon, however, there are no shadows cast by mountains or oceans so there is no way for it to get warmer or colder over time (see point 4 above).
Why Can’t Astronauts Walk on the Moon?
1. It Is Very Hard To Get There!
The Moon is the only other planet in our solar system that we can see with the naked eye. It is quite small and sits in a very distant, dark part of the night sky. This means that it takes a long time for an astronaut to get there and back—about one-third of a year, which means they have to stay there for nearly three months at a time! This is because they have to travel at just over 3.8 miles per second (6 km/s) or 88,000 miles per hour (142,000 km/h). Over this distance, it would take them about 7½ hours to travel from one side of the Moon to the other. The astronauts need to be able to wear special space suits because the temperature on the Moon’s surface can reach over 250°C.
2. The Moon Has No Atmosphere!
The air we breathe on Earth contains 21 percent oxygen and 78 percent nitrogen gas; this makes up our atmosphere. The moon does not contain any oxygen or nitrogen gas; it does not support life therefore any humans would die if they went there as we are made out of these gases… This means that if humans ever went on a trip to the moon they would die within days or weeks of arriving there due to lack of oxygen and other gases in their bloodstream…
3. It’s Airless!
The airless nature of the moon means that there is no air to breathe—the air we breathe is made up of oxygen and nitrogen gases that come from the Earth’s atmosphere. The moon does not have any atmosphere so humans would die if they went there.
4. It Doesn’t Have An Atmosphere!
The lack of an atmosphere means that the moon is also very cold; it has a temperature of -173°C (-280°F). This means that any astronauts who went there would freeze and die within days or weeks of arriving there due to a lack of oxygen and other gases in their bloodstream.
5. It’s Too Small!
The moon is very small so astronauts would find it hard to walk on it as the gravity on the planet is only one-third that of Earth and this would make their movements very slow; they wouldn’t be able to move around at all!
6. The Moon Does Not Have Oceans!
Our planet has oceans, lakes, rivers, and seas—the Moon does not, as it is completely covered in craters (see point 4 above). This means that any astronauts who went there would freeze and die within days or weeks of arriving there due to a lack of oxygen and other gases in their bloodstream.
What Does It Mean To Walk Around The Moon?
- The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the moon and was launched by NASA in July 1969 (which was then a year later than planned). The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, commander; Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module pilot; and Michael Collins, Command Module pilot. They landed on July 20 at 02:17:40 UTC, which is 2:17 a.m., July 21 EDT (July 20 at 4:17 p.m., July 21 PDT).
- After making sure that they were safe and that the spacecraft was not damaged they climbed back in Eagle and took off around 1:45 UTC (1:45 p.m., EDT) to rendezvous with Collins in the command module Columbia, who had remained in lunar orbit since leaving the moon. After two days of communication and tracking, Collins landed the command module at 2:56 UTC (2:56 a.m., EDT) at Tranquility Base.
- The crew spent about 21 hours outside their spacecraft on the moon during which they collected samples from different locations including the Sea of Tranquility, where Armstrong took his famous photograph, and during this time Armstrong became one of only 12 people to set foot on another world. After returning to Columbia they returned to Earth via a parachute jump at 9:52 UTC (9:52 a.m., EDT) landing in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Monica, California about 250 miles west of Los Angeles at 10:56 UTC (10:56 a.m., EDT).
- The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the moon and was launched by NASA in July 1969 (which was then a year later than planned). The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, commander; Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module pilot; and Michael Collins, Command Module pilot. They landed on July 20 at 02:17:40 UTC, which is 2:17 a.m., July 21 EDT.
- The Lunar Module Eagle landed near the Sea of Tranquility crater with Armstrong and Aldrin inside it at 10:56 UTC (9:56 a.m., EDT). After completing their landing procedures they spent about two hours outside the spacecraft walking around and collecting samples from different locations on the moon before returning to Eagle for a safe landing back at 00:18 UTC (12:18 p.m., EDT) after about one hour of extravehicular activity (EVA) or extra-vehicular activity (EVA).
- After making sure that they were safe and that the spacecraft was not damaged they climbed back in Eagle and took off around 1:45 UTC (1:45 p.m., EDT) to rendezvous with Collins in the command module Columbia, who had remained in lunar orbit since leaving the moon. After two days of communication and tracking, Collins landed the command module at 2:56 UTC (2:56 a.m., EDT) at Tranquility Base.
Conclusion
In this blog post, we explore how astronauts walk around the Moon, what walking around the Moon means, and more. We also look at how you can walk around the moon without actually being on the moon. When we understand how common phrases are used, they make more sense. The good news is that now you know how to walk around the moon, you can share that knowledge with others! Hopefully, this post will dispel any confusion and make it easier to understand these common phrases.
