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First - the "face" never changes since the moon is tidally locked with one face always facing us.

But it "shape" (new, full, quarter moon, etc.) changes every day because the moon is orbiting the Earth ... thus the relative position of the Earth, moon and sun changes every day ( although it repeats every month (which is why we coll them months).

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