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Half of the earth is always dark because the Earth is opaque and the side facing the sun blocks sunlight from reaching the other side of the Earth. If we were in a star system with multiple stars we might have a chance of having more than half of the surface of the Earth illuminated but as we only have the one sun we will always have day and night.
Note that strictly speaking the dark side of the earth is not totally dark - it gets some reflected light from the moon most of the time and a tiny bit of light from the stars, not to mention all the anthropogenic light sources that get switched on at night.
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Why is one side of the moon called the dark side?
It's not. The moon is always half light and half dark, but it's not always the same places. -- Take a soccer ball and a flashlight into a dark room. -- Turn on the flashlight, and point it at the soccer ball. -- Half of the ball is lit up, and the other half is dark. -- No matter how you turn the ball, no matter how quickly you move or which way you bend, no matter how you manipulate the flashlight, no matter how much you wiggle and dance ... 50% of the surface of the ball is lit up, and the remaining 50% of its surface is dark. -- 50% of the Earth is lit up, and the remaining 50% of it is dark. The light and dark places keep changing, but the Earth is always half light and half dark. -- 50% of the Moon is lit up, and the remaining 50% of it is dark. The light and dark places keep changing, but the Moon is always half light and half dark.
When one half of earth has sunlight the other half is dark?
Because the earth rotates and each part is illuminated as it turns 'toward' the sun and because the earth moves around the sun that's why.
Would half of he earth freeze if the earth stopped revolving around the sun?
No.the Earth would be stuck in one season. it would be dark and the dark side of Earth qould have less food and animal life and human-life would probably end :'(
Why does the moon have a dark side but the earth doesn't?
Earth does have a dark side. When you are on that dark side it is called night. Both Earth and the moon get their light from the sun. Since they are both spherical and there is only one sun in our solar system, the sun can only light up half of each object at a time.
Which moon phase is not illuminated?
One half of the Moon is always illuminated, except during a lunar eclipse. But we only see part of it.You may be referring to the new moon, when the half that is lit up is facing away from the Earth, and the half that faces Earth is dark.
Does Jupiter ever get dark?
All planets have daytime on one half of the planet and nighttime on the other half. Where it is night on Jupiter, it is dark.
What is one half of the earth when divided by the equator?
One half of the earth is a hemisphere. There is a northern, southern, eastern, and western hemisphere.
Why is there a dark side to the moon?
Excellent question. You can answer it in about 30 seconds, with a simple experiment that you can do on your own. -- Take a flashlight and a small ball (tennis, ping-pong, baseball, etc.) into a room that has no mirrors. -- Turn on the flashlight and turn off the room lights. -- Can you find a way to illuminate more than half of the ball with the flashlight ? The moon is the ball (and the Earth is another one). The sun is the flashlight. Each ball is half light and half dark at any time. As the ball spins, the area that's light keeps changing, and the area that's dark keeps changing. But it's always half and half. There's no area of the moon that's always dark. But at any time you want to choose, half of the moon is dark, and half of the Earth is also dark, because the sun is the only flashlight around.
What is half of Earth's surface?
A hemisphere is one half of the sphere that makes up Earth's surface.
Is it day all over the world at the sam time?
no stupid one half is dark one half is light
What is one half of earth?
hemisphere
What word means one-half of the earth?
Hemisphere means one-half of the earth. Hemispheres are eastern and western or northern and southern.
