I haven't noticed any changes. Its always been a white rock. Perhaps more craters?
The phases of the moon as it orbits the earth
The moon never actually changes shape. What we can see at night is the suns reflection from around on the other side of the earth onto the moon, which depending on its position will give us what we can see of the moon at night.
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.
When the moon is bright, the sunlit part of the moon that we can see is getting larger. When the moon is dark the sunlit part of the moon that we see is getting smaller.
The moon never changes shape only the light you can see.
The moon is one whole sphere, and the reason why you can only see half of it sometimes is due to the light being shone onto it. The light you see from the moon is actually the reflection of the sun's light. As the sun and move across the sky in different patterns, we see slight changes in the moon each night. These changes are called the moon's phases. There is a full moon, in which you can see the entire face of the moon, and there is a new moon, where you can't see it at all. For more information on the phases of the moon, see the related link.
The Moon only seems to "change shape". We only see one side of the Moon from Earth. The variation in the amount of sunlight hitting that side of the Moon, as it orbits Earth, is why we see the apparent changes in shape. These changes are called "lunar phases".
The phase of the moon you see depends on how much of the sunlit side of the moon faces earth.
The variations in how much reflected sunlight we see as the Moon orbits Earth.
The sunlit fraction of the Moon never changes ... it's always 50% .What changes is how much of that 50% we can see from Earth.The Moon is not doing anything special while that happens.
because the moon isn't up all day and it changes when the sun is ready to come up
The variations in how much reflected sunlight we see as the Moon orbits Earth.