SECRETS OF THE MOONπŸŒ“

Cards (8)

  • The surfaces of the moon is rough and full of rocks and craters
  • the moon does not give off light it REFLECTS sunlight to earth at night time
  • the moon completes a full rotation and and revolution in 27 days
  • we always see the same side of the moon
  • on the first day of a lunar month we cannot see it because sunlight falls on the back of the moon
  • a lunar cycle takes about 30 days
  • when the moon moves in between the sun and the earth it blocks sunlight from reaching earth and a SOLAR eclipse occurs
  • when the earth block sunlight from the moon it’s called a lunar eclipse