WHY DOES THE MOON APPEARS TO CHANGE SHAPE?
Each month it seems as
though the moon changes shape. Of course, that is not really the case. Only the
part of moon that is both turned towards the Earth and lit by sun is visible
from Earth. The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.3 days, a lunar month. As
the moon also takse exactly 27.3 days to turn on its axis, the same side of the
moon is always turned toward the earth. The amount of moon that can be seen
changes as the moon position changes.
It is this change in the
amount of the moons face which can be seen from the earth, that makes the moon
look as though it is changing shape. Our word month comes from moon although
our calender months are no longer linked to the phases to moon.
FACT FILE
In 1931 Johannes Winkler
launched his HW-1 rocket. It went 1.9 metres ( 2 yards ) into the air, turned
over and fell back to the ground.
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ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to learn about those phenomena that we can easily observe, but until the end we do not understand how this happens.
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