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1 Our Lovely Moon And we’re lucky to have it! Assembled By Ken Mitchell Livermore TOPScience

2 The Moon’s Phases From this perspective, only the “half-Moon” is seen. However, an observer on Earth will see the Moon through its various phases. The times shown (on the Earth’s picture) corresponds to the Moon’s position in its monthly orbit at noontime.

3 The Moon’s Front Side We get to see only 56% of this side of the Moon because it’s synchronized into an orbit with the same period of rotation as its revolution around the Earth.

4 Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters Tycho Copernicus

5 The Far Side of the Moon Apollo 16 Orbit Why do there seem to be more craters on the far side of the Moon?

6 Lunar Eclipse: When the Earth Eclipse the Moon

7 Solar Eclipse As Viewed From the Moon

8 Annular Solar Eclipse at High Resolution

9 Saguaro Moon Rise – The Harvest Moon Is the Moon really this big?

10 Summer Moon Illusion No, the Moon is not larger near the horizon

11 New Crescent Moon - Pescadero Beach

12 Apollo 8 Earthshine The view of Earth from the Moon.

13 Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars

14 Lunar surface charging and electric fields caused by sunlight and solar wind.


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