We always
see the same side when we see the moon in the sky. The moon’s shine comes from the sun
reflecting its light off it.
The phases
we see the moon go through occur when the moon is orbiting around the earth. The earth is what blocks the sun’s light from
reflecting off the moon. So as the earth
and moon rotate around the sun and each other we see different phases of the
moon.
From a
photographers point of view the full moon is the best and maybe the easiest to
photograph but every different phase has its own beauty. The brightness of a full moon to the darkness
of a new moon. Each makes the nighttime
sky different every night. I would not
have thought of that.
Pack out
what you pack in.
Explore
the Solar System, Earth and Earth’s Moon, © 2011 World Book, Inc. Chicago, Il 60601, www.worldbookonline.com
World Book’s Solar
System and Space Exploration Library, Earth and Earth’s Moon, Second edition,
©2007, World Book, Inc. A Scott Fetzer Company, Chicago, IL