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Why does the moon look different as it orbits around the earth?
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∙ 14y ago
The moon looks different as it orbits the earth because different portions of it are lit up by the sun and visible to the earth. Half of the moon is always lit by the sun, and half is always facing earth, and when those two halves overlap it creates the portion visible to us.
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∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoThere is always one half of the moon that is illuminated by the sun, and half that is dark; these are day and night on the moon. The moon always has just one hemisphere that faces the Earth, and one hemisphere that never faces the Earth. The side of the moon that faces the Earth gets varying amounts of illumination from the sun depending upon the positions of the sun and moon relative to each other. When we see more of the illuminated part of the moon, the moon looks bigger; the dark part is not visible. When we see less of the illuminated part, the moon looks smaller.
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