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Because the moon has gravity, just like the earth, although only one sixth the strength of the earth's. They walked (or drove their lunar rovers) only within a few kilometers of their landing sites, but they could have gone anywhere on the moon's surface that their supplies would have permitted.

The reason that the astronauts didn't fall off the moon is the same reason that we don't fall off the earth, despite the Sun being so much larger and having so much more gravitational "pull" than does the earth.

2007-11-07 06:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by David Bowman 7 · 5 1

for an comparable reason that individuals can walk on the two the North and South pole of Earth and no one falls off. by using fact gravity pulls each and each difficulty to the middle of the globe. Earth's gravity tries to pull each and each difficulty interior the worldwide interior the direction of the middle of the Earth and gravity on the Moon tries to pull each and each difficulty on the Moon interior the direction of the middle of the Moon. by using fact gravity gets weaker with distance, someplace in section between the Earth and the Moon is a place the placement the pull of gravity from Earth and the Moon are equivalent. In that place you does now no longer be pulled interior the direction of the two place. it somewhat is named a Lagrange think of roughly physics and astronomy.

2016-10-15 09:19:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

For the same reason that people can walk on both the North and South pole of Earth and nobody falls off. Because gravity pulls everything to the center of the globe. Earth's gravity tries to pull everything on Earth toward the center of the Earth and gravity on the Moon tries to pull everything on the Moon toward the center of the Moon. Because gravity gets weaker with distance, somewhere in space between the Earth and the Moon is a place where the pull of gravity from Earth and the Moon are equal. In that place you would not be pulled toward either place. This is called a Lagrange Point in physics and astronomy.

2007-11-07 07:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 2

Actually, one astronaut DID fall down to earth, because he wasn't holding onto the moon tightly enough. He's been held at area 51 ever since because there is a government conspiracy to keep this from the general public. ( I know this for a fact because the space alien who regularly visits me told me about it.)

2007-11-07 08:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by Michael M 7 · 6 0

Contrary to popular belief, the moon is made of velcro, not cheese. Simple solution: the astronauts had velcro boots. Not exactly rocket science.

2007-11-07 08:20:13 · answer #5 · answered by the boy from tortuga 4 · 7 0

I notice you are a top contributor.
A contributing troll.

The moon has gravity. Only about a fifth of that of the earth, but its far more powerful there than the gravitational pull of the earth. So things dropped on the moon stay on the moon.

There is no top or bottom to a planet. North and South, top and bottom are totally arbitrary. DOWN is any direction toward the center of a planet or moon. UP is any direction away from the center. Australians can walk perfectly normally because like their feet, like ours, are down, and their heads are "up". The same applies to the moon.

Of course you knew this perfectly well and could probably phrase it better than I.

2007-11-07 07:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7 3

The moon still has gravity, just not as much.

2007-11-07 06:59:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

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