What are the phases of the moon?
The moon revolves in its orbit around the Earth at an average distance 384 392 km. This spacecraft is in two movements: a translation around the Earth and one rotation about its axis. The time period in which these two movements are performed is identical, why the moon always shows one face to our planet. But that face is not always visible in the same way. The moon has no light of its own and acts as a giant mirror that reflects the rays it receives from the Sun changes in form, such as perceived by an observer located at a given point on the planet, depends on the relative positions of G, Earth and the Moon. When Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, the observer will see it as a round disc and intense brightness: this is the stage known as the full moon. If the Moon is located between Earth and the Sun, the same observer will perceive a completely opaque disk called new moon. There are intermediate stages, like the waxing and waning.
How long does the moon walk its orbit around the Earth?
The moon completes a translational motion of our planet environment within 27.3 days. However, as in this period the Earth also moves around the sun, the time lag between a full moon and the other reaches to 29.5 days.
- What is a satellite?
- The artificial satellite is a man-made spacecraft, launched into space and situated
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- What are the differences between weight and mass?
- The weight is the result of the action that exerts the force
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- How do hurricanes form?
- In the Earth's atmosphere originate winds, air masses coming in motion by
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- Who was Gandhi?
- In 1947, India, which was part of the British Empire from the
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- What are the tundra and taiga?
- In the northern region of the earth's surface suggests two biomes are
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