3 Weird Things About the Moon

1. It's black
Well, it's really more of a dark gray. The moon appears white because we have no point of comparison in the night sky. It's an optical illusion. If there were a truly white object next to it, the moon would look quite dingy.

2. It has dust storms
Astronauts report that plumes of particles rise off the lunar surface at dusk and dawn-even though there's no wind. How? One theory is that solar radiation creates an electrostatic charge that lofts the dust into space.

3. It's from here
The leading explanation of lunar origin, the so-called big whack hypothesis, posits that the orb was created when a planet-sized object slammed into Earth, knocking off a cloud of vaporized rock that eventually condensed into the moon.