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What is the same of the moon and earth?
the shape
Does the moon change shape in a full orbit?
No - the moon itself stays the same shape. The phases of the moon change as the earth and moon orbit round the sun. The phases are simply the amount of sunlight reflected in relation to the position of the earth's shadow cast on the moon
What is the shape of the moon's orbit around the Earth?
The shape of the moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse.
Why does the moon cange it's shape?
The moon's shape remains the same at all times. The aspect of the moon changes because the shadow moves across its surface as it revolves around the earth.
What is the shape of the moon on Halloween?
Technically, the shape of the moon never changes. What changes is what we saw on Earth. The shape we see depends on the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun.
If it's a crescent moon at the north pole can it be a full moon on the same night somewhere else?
No. Everybody anywhere on earth who can see the moon at all sees the same illuminated shape at the same time.
What shape will the moon be on the 22nd of March 2011?
It will be a waning gibbous. The moon itself will remain the same shape it always has; spherical. However, from the Earth, it will resemble an oval-like shape; almost a half circle.
What causes half of the moon cycle to happen?
Every month as the Moon cycles through its phases it appears to change shape. The Moon always has the same spherical shape, but stargazers on Earth see different fractions of the dark and illuminated portions of the Moon as the Moon orbits Earth. The common urban myth that Earth's shadow falling on the Mooncauses lunar phases is incorrect.
Why do the sun and moon appear to be the same in size and shape?
The sun is approximately 400 times the size of the moon, however, it is also approximately 400 times farther away. This relationship cancels out and makes the sun and the moon appear observationally to be the same size on earth.
Does the moon change its shape by turning?
No, the moon does not change its shape by turning. The moon's changing appearance in the sky, known as its phases, is a result of its orbit around the Earth creating different lighting angles that illuminate different portions of the moon's surface.
Why moon has different shape?
Erm, sentence fragment! It is always the same shape, it just phases. This is when the earth is blocking the sunlight from getting to the moon, and so shadows fall on it, making it appear to change shape. Please learn some grammar.
What shape is earth's moon?
a ball
