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The Moon mass is 1/81 of the Earth's mass and the Earth's gravity is 1/6 of gravity on the Earth's surface, meaning that if you weigh 60 kg on Earth, your weight on the Moon will be 10 kg. If you can easily carry a 30-kilogram bag on the ground, you can easily carry a 180-kilogram bag on the moon. If you can easily jump on the surface of the earth to a height of half a meter, you can climb as high as 3 meters. Also, if you have a pendulum clock that vibrates on the ground 60 times a minute, it will vibrate on the moon about 360 times per minute.
Since the moon's rotation around itself is very slow relative to the earth's rotation around itself (23 hours and 56 minutes), this results in a much longer day on the moon than on Earth. The average

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