Yes but only about 1.3 seconds ago as this is how long light takes to reach us from the Moon.
what did the moon look like the past week? what did the moon look like the past week?
When you look at the moon, the light you are seeing is actually only reflected off the surface of the moon from the sun. The moon appears to be very bright when we look at it from earth, because relative to the dark void of space around it is extremely bright. When you stand on it there will still be an amount of light arriving from the sun.
The daylight side of the moon
The daylight side of the moon
The moon is Waxing Gibbous 99% of Full on Fri 18 Mar, 2011 at 8:15 PM EDST
what did the moon look like the past week? what did the moon look like the past week?
The past tense of "we look forward to seeing you" is "we looked forward to seeing you."
The moon is about 250,000 miles from the earth. When the moon is viewed from earth, the image seen is only about one second in the past.
In that case, you would also see a half moon if you could see the moon at all. The moon is in the same phase for everywhere on Earth, so if you can see it at all, you're seeing it in the same phase that anyone else on Earth is seeing.
The moon is one day past first quarter. It will look just slightly more than half lit.
When you look at the moon, the light you are seeing is actually only reflected off the surface of the moon from the sun. The moon appears to be very bright when we look at it from earth, because relative to the dark void of space around it is extremely bright. When you stand on it there will still be an amount of light arriving from the sun.
The moon was in the waning crescent phase, 9 days past full and 5 days from the new moon on the 23rd.
Nothing special. The Moon has days and nights like Earth does, except on the Moon it takes 29.5 days for one lunar "day" and "night".When you look at the Moon and it is "waning", what you are seeing is night falling (slowly) on the side of the Moon that we can see.
The daylight side of the moon
The daylight side of the moon
The daylight side of the moon
The daylight side of the moon