Every space explorer starts with questions. Here are the ones kids ask most — with real answers.
Trick question — it doesn't! The Moon makes no light of its own. It's like a giant mirror made of grey rock: sunlight hits it and bounces down to us. When you see a "half moon", you're seeing the half where it's daytime on the Moon.
Yes — and India found it! In 2009, Chandrayaan-1 discovered water mixed into the Moon's soil, and there's ice hiding in super-cold, dark craters near the south pole where the Sun never shines. That's exactly why everyone wants to explore there — future astronauts could melt the ice to drink, and even split it to make rocket fuel!
About 384,000 kilometres. If you could drive there in a car at highway speed, it would take about five months of non-stop driving. Chandrayaan-3's clever looping path took about 40 days.
The Moon has gravity — just less than Earth (about one-sixth). If you can jump half a metre on Earth, you could jump about 3 metres on the Moon, like a superhero. But you'd always come back down.
Just like Earth has earthquakes, the Moon has moonquakes — little rumbles and shivers of the ground. Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander had a special listening instrument and felt one in 2023!
Absolutely yes. Every single ISRO scientist was once a kid asking questions like these. They studied maths and science, stayed curious, and never stopped asking "why?" and "how?". India's next Moon missions — and maybe the first Indian astronaut ON the Moon — will be built by people who are in school right now.