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Barbra Sobhani

Emma Herzog

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon's gravity pulls on Earth's ocean, creating high and low tides

Aur Shalev Merin

Favorite thing about the Moon: Only 12 People have ever walked on the moon! Can't wait for our mission to help change that.

Jonathan Leites

Favorite thing about the Moon: little known fact is that the moon has a liquid outer core, just like earth, and the deepest we have managed to dig from the surface is less than 10ft!

Shrey Jayesh Tejani

Favorite thing about the Moon: Moon’s South Pole regolith has helium-3, an isotope which can power the Earth for decades without producing harmful radioactive waste

Luke Bassett

Favorite thing about the Moon: It has at least 324 craters of eternal darkness

Josh Tice

Favorite thing about the Moon: It's a natural source of light during the night!

Samhita Donthula  

Favorite thing about the Moon: How it affects the tides on Earth.

Madison Ferraro

Favorite thing about the Moon: the leading theory of the origin of the Moon is actually that it was once part of Earth. 

Ethan Letendre

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is shrinking almost 50 meters every 100 million years.

Nick Starkey

Favorite thing about the Moon: The eclipses 

Sam Kleiner

Favorite thing about the Moon: Full moons look super pretty on a clear night!

Margarita Alperovich

Favorite thing about the Moon: There is no real Dark Side of the moon, Just a far side Earth can't see

Vamshi Krishna Pathi

Favorite thing about the Moon: The Moon's gravitational attraction is the primary cause of Earth's ocean tides.

Richard Mannion

Electrical Engineering

Favorite thing about the Moon: There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Daniel Kroneberger

Mechanical Engineering 

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon sees a 500°F swing in temperature every lunar day (~30 earth days)

Konstantinos Stathopulos

Favorite thing about the Moon: As Earth's natural satellite, we can bounce radio signals off the moon. The Navy did this in the 1950s to send messages from DC to Hawaii before the first communications satellites

Ethan Levin

Electrical Engineering 

Favorite thing about the Moon: It allows for eclipses 

Fiona Radebaugh

Favorite thing about the Moon: my favorite thing about the moon is looking at supermoons!

Ethan Frick 

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon had active volcanoes while dinosaurs roamed the Earth

Jackson Gabbard

Favorite thing about the Moon: It is the product of a tremendous astroid collusion with Earth during its formation. 

Jackson Doyle

Favorite thing about the Moon:  It is tidally locked with Earth, which is why we always see the same side

Maxx Menzies

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is the 5th largest satellite in the solar system, and is the largest in comariosn to its planet's size. 

Joshua Cole

Favorite thing about the Moon: Many lunar formations were created by ancient volcanic activity and lava flows

Jack Diamond

Leighanne Bennet

Favorite thing about the Moon: We only ever see one side of the moon from Earth because the moon is tidally locked.

Mary Sekibo

Favorite thing about the Moon: There are moonquakes on the moon 

Nicole Miltonberger

Jonah Steiner

Jackson Stillman

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is moving away about 1.5 inches every year.

Kaitlyn Vu

Phoebe Mertens 

Favorite thing about the Moon: How the moon connects us all together, its in everyone's night sky!

Felipe Garza

Favorite thing about the Moon: Everyone on Earth sees the same Moon face, no matter where