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The moon is between Earth and the sun. They have to be directly in a straight line, where the moon is in between the earth and the sun.
Mars and Jupiter are always in a straight line. You need a third point of reference to compare the two to. Take a sheet of graph paper and randomly place two points. They can be connected by a straight line and no matter where they are on the paper, they can be aligned.
When the earth is between the moon and the sun, a full moon occurs. In the less common instance when the Earth is between the moon and the sun and all three are in line, a lunar eclipse occurs.
A ZYZYGY is when the earth, moon and sun are all in a straight line.
They are not aligned, they way they are is just the way they have evolved. But sometimes they are exactly in a line so you get an eclipse.
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The moon is between Earth and the sun. They have to be directly in a straight line, where the moon is in between the earth and the sun.
Of course, you can always draw a straight line from Moon to Sun, so really, to be interesting, the alignment would involve Earth, Sun, and the Moon. If they are in a straight line, there will sometimes be solar eclipses, or lunar eclipses.
When the moon is either 180 degrees from the sun, or aligned with it. That is, if you could draw a straight line from the sun to the earth and out into space beyond, if the moon lands anywhere on that line, you have spring tides. In that alignment, you'll have either a new moon or a full moon.
It will vary from planet to planet but they will all be aligned in a straight line. The distance from Earth to Mars will be about 33,900,000 miles.
The phases of the moon are the result of the ever-changing positions of the Earth, moon, and sun relative to one another. When the moon and the sun are on opposite sides of the earth (whereby the sun, earth, and moon form a straight line), a full moon occurs. When the moon and sun are on the same side of the earth (whereby the sun,moon, and earth form a straight line), a new moon occurs.
Alignment is how straight something is, and especially, as aligned in relation to something else.
The straight-line distance is 1,030 miles (to the coastline of Puerto Rico). This is the true straight line distance which accounts for the curvature of the earth, NOT simply a straight line drawn on a map.
Mars and Jupiter are always in a straight line. You need a third point of reference to compare the two to. Take a sheet of graph paper and randomly place two points. They can be connected by a straight line and no matter where they are on the paper, they can be aligned.
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The straight-line distance is 1,210 miles. This is the true straight line distance which accounts for the curvature of the earth, NOT the straight line drawn on a map.
The straight-line distance is 1885.7 miles. This is the true straight line distance which accounts for the curvature of the earth, NOT the straight line drawn on a map.