11 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon

There's a graveyard on the Moon

Most of the 200 tons of trash on the Moon is space junk and ephemera crash-landed or left behind by the 12 astronauts who have visited since 1969: abandoned satellites, spent rockets, cameras, backpacks, and golf balls. But among the detritus on the Moon are the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, one of the founders of the field of planetary science, sent skyward by NASA in a polycarbonate capsule.