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The Moon does not have an atmosphere, but it does have gravity, about 1/6 that experienced on Earth. So while the weight of an object would be far less, and there would be no air resistance, it would still have to accelerate to over 5300 mph to escape into space from the lunar surface. This is called escape velocityfor the Moon.

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