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☆☆☆☆☆The aspect of the gas giants that has the biggest effect on their rings and satellites is their gravity.
lunar cycle
plants takes in carbon dioxide and release blank gas?
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Magnetic Field
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If it is all dark there I doubt a photograph of the dark side of the moon can be taken.
The full lunar cycle is 29 days long
but it takes about 28days for the moon to orbit the earth
The "dark" side of the Moon is not a side that's permanently dark, but simply the side - about one half of the Moon - that we can never see from Earth.
It's better to call it the "far side" of the Moon.
Why the far side is sometimes called the "dark side" is probably just a misunderstanding.
Also, it may be to do with the idea that the far side is more "mysterious".
Each place on the Moon receives sunlight during the course of a month, as the Moon goes through its phases.
Saturn has 82 moons. Fifty-three moons are confirmed and named and another 29 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming.
The side of the moon that we can never see from Earth is often called the "dark side" (a) because it sounds cool, and (b) because darkness is a powerful metaphor for the unknown. In fact, the so-called dark side of the moon is not really dark. Luna has day and night on every part of its surface (just like Earth, only Lunar days are 28 Earth days long). During a new moon, for instance, the "dark side" is flooded with light.
The far side of the moon is dark in the metaphorical sense, in that we never see it. To people who think visually (most of us), lack of information seems like darkness.
How is it that there's a part of the moon we never see? Like many moons of planets in our solar system, our moon, Luna, keeps one side to its primary continually (there's a little wobble, so we can really see about 55% of the lunar surface). The moon is "tide locked" (read about tidal locking on wikipedia). This situation develops with all moons and planets over a long time. The Earth's rotation is slowing, too, and will eventually become tide locked to the sun (not for a very, very, very long time, but scientists can measure the tiny lengthening of the day).
Quibble: to be fair, the far side of the moon does receive less light than the rest of the moon, because it doesn't see any of the sunlight reflected from the earth. So technically, it is a bit darker overall. But nearly nobody who uses the phrase "dark side of the moon" is thinking of it in this way.
Plate movements
the way earth has a tilted axis
