The average time that it takes for light to travel from the moon's surface to the earth's surface or vice versa is about 1.255 seconds.
The Moon orbits the Earth, and tags along after the Earth. It takes one year - 365.25 days - for the Earth to orbit the Sun once, so that's the number for the Moon as well.
A lunar month, or synodic month, is approximately 29.5 days, which is the time it takes for the Moon to go from one new moon to the next. In contrast, the Moon takes about 27.3 days to complete one full orbit around the Earth, known as a sidereal month. The difference of about 2.2 days between the two durations is due to the Earth’s movement around the Sun, which affects the position of the Moon relative to the Sun as observed from Earth.
It takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical. An ellipse is a flattened circle, much like an oval. The Moon takes just under a month to revolve around the Earth. Looking down on the Earth above the North Pole, the Moon revolves counterclockwise around the Earth, which is the same direction that the Earth rotates on its axis.An ellipse. Very close to a circle though.Unlike many other moons, the Earth's moon follows an elliptical orbit.
The Earth is not only larger but much more massive than the Moon is.
The moon's synodic period, the time it takes to come back to the same phase relative to the Earth and Sun, varies but, on average, is 29.53 days.
No. It's much slower. The Earth takes a day to spin round. The Moon takes a month.
The Moon takes longer. The Earth spins once in 23 hours 56 minutes, while the Moon spins once in about 27 days.
It takes a rocket approximately 3 days to travel from Earth to the Moon.
The Moon orbits the Earth, and tags along after the Earth. It takes one year - 365.25 days - for the Earth to orbit the Sun once, so that's the number for the Moon as well.
First off the moon doesn't orbit around the earth. But it takes aproximatly one month to go through all the moon phases.
"To reflect the sun to the moon?" Your question does not make sense as worded. It takes a little over a second for sunlight to reflect from the moon to earth, if that is what you are asking. The sun does not reflect anything--it can't. Sunlight takes 8.3 minutes to reach the moon, then a bit over a second to get from the moon to earth.
I believe it takes light from the sun about seven minutes to reach earth and moon. And light travels at 186,000 miles pre second !
A day on the moon is about 29.5 Earth days long, which is roughly equivalent to a lunar month. A year on the moon, however, is about the same length as a year on Earth, as it takes the moon approximately 27.3 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Earth.
The Moon actually orbits the Earth, which it does in 28 days, but if you consider the Earth and the Moon as a double system, then the Moon orbits the Sun once a year, just as the Earth does. The Moon is much closer to the Earth than the Earth and the Moon are to the Sun.
A lunar month, or synodic month, is approximately 29.5 days, which is the time it takes for the Moon to go from one new moon to the next. In contrast, the Moon takes about 27.3 days to complete one full orbit around the Earth, known as a sidereal month. The difference of about 2.2 days between the two durations is due to the Earth’s movement around the Sun, which affects the position of the Moon relative to the Sun as observed from Earth.
The rotation period of the moon is 27.32 days.