Facts about the Moon

The weight on the moon is about 1/6 of that on earth.  The moon is ¼ the size of the earth. http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_gravity.phtml

 

When sun is out the temperature on the moon is about 1000c and on the side facing away the sun it is about -1730c. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/qmoon_surf.html&edu=elem

The time for radio a message to travel from the moon to the earth is about 1.33 seconds.  http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/class/lesson_plans/lesson2.pdf

The time of a day on the moon is two weeks of earth time that the sun is up on the moon. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980302b.html

It takes 27 day 7hours and 43 minutes for the moon to go around the earth. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/AdaLi.shtml

All sides of the moon are light at some time there is no real dark side of the moon that is always dark

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/UNIVERSE/MOON.HTML

The far side of the moon is covered in craters. And it would be very hard to drive on this if we wanted to http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Moon/surface.html