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This is my illustration of the lunar phases |
What did you notice about the phases of the moon? One of the things I noticed about the moons rotation phases is that the moon rotates around the earth, but does not revolve on its axis. This means that we see only one side of the moon. If you looked at the moon simulator, you can see that on the display located on the right hand side the moons phase never changes. The only thing that changes is the areas of the moon that are illuminated, if the moon is closer to the sun than we see what is called a new moon. But when the moons face, the side we see, is turned towards the sun than a full moon appears.
Why do we see different parts of the moon each night? We see different parts of the moon every night because both the earth and the moon are constantly rotating around something; the earth rotates around the sun while the moon rotates around the Earth. When the moon rotates around the earth the way the Sun light reaches it is different, so sometimes the moon may appear to be full and on other nights we may see it looking like a crescent. The moon doesn’t change its shape, only some parts of it are in the shadow therefore we cannot see them.
What is a lunar month? A lunar month is the time between a full moon to the next one or from a new moon to the next one. A lunar month lasts approximately 29.5 days. There are different types of lunar month: A draconic month, Tropical month, Anomalistic month and a Syodic month.
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