Timeline for How does the Earth move in the sky as seen from the Moon?
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 23:14 | vote | accept | kim holder | ||
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 20:04 | comment | added | Mark Bailey | @jean No. The "dark" side of the moon is not actually dark all of the time. We just never see it (other than when we fly a spaceship around to the other side). The same side of the moon always faces Earth, but as the moon revolves around the Earth, which takes just over 4 weeks, the sun shines on different sides of the moon. When we on Earth see a full moon, that is because the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of Earth. So the side facing us is fully lit. At new moon, the moon is on the same side as the sun, so our side of the moon is dark, but the "dark" side is actually fully lit. | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | jean | I'm confused about the sun rises at moon. Since moon got the same face to sun all the time it seens logical (on the light side of the moon) it just a mater of earth eclipses the sun. Both just hand around about the same spot with the earth just swinging a little in front of the sun | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 17:28 | history | edited | Mark Bailey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added link to etymology of the word planet (originally meaning wanderer).
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | kim holder | And if you are in the higher southern latitudes of the moon, the Earth is always in the same spot - upside down. :P | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 4:51 | comment | added | reirab | @TimGostony That's a really interesting question. I made a new question for it here: astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/8105/2934 . I included an image which I think may show artificial lights on Earth as seen from the moon, but I'm not 100% sure that's what I was seeing. | |
| Dec 2, 2014 at 3:44 | comment | added | Tim | @corsiKa follow-up question: has the human impact on earth created a difference in the brightness of the "dark side" of the Earth, viewed from the Moon? | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | corsiKa | I bet the moon people have been intrigued that over the last couple hundred years they've seen the dark side of the earth get brighter. | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 21:27 | history | answered | Mark Bailey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |