The Moon

LoreLandscape

Phases Eclipses

Formation

Legends?

• Can you see the man in the moon?

Landscapes • Maria

– Latin word for sea – Dark areas of the moon – Low lands and basins – Similar rock to our ocean basins

• Highlands – Lighter color rock – Mountain ranges formed from moons formation – As old as the moon 4.2 – 4.5 billion years old

• Craters– Circular hollows – Impacts from meteoroids – Range from 2100 km to microscopic

The Moon Phases • Daily changes in the moons appearance

from earth

• We see the light from the sun reflected off the moon

• The sun always illuminated half the moon

• The position of the moon effects how much of the moon we see

Moon Phases

Moon Phases

• Full Moon – When the bright face

of the moon faces the earth

• New moon – When the bright face

of the moon faces away from the earth

Moon Phases

• CrescentLess than half the moon seen

• GibbousMore then half the moon seen

• 1st QuarterHalf way point between the new moon and full moon

• 3rd Quarter

Halfway point between the full moon and new moon

Moon Phases

• Waxing – Moving from new

moon (all dark) to the full moon (all light)

– “D” shape – “Wax on”

Moon Phases

• Waning – Moving from the

full moon (all bright) to the new moon (all dark)

– “C” shaped– “Wane off”

Moon’s Orbit

• How many sides of the moon can we see from earth?– One

• As the moon revolves around the earth it rotates – for every 1 revolution it rotates once

• Same side always faces the earth

• Revolves at an angle

Moon’s orbit• The moon orbits on a different plan from the earth • Allows for the moon phases

• What happens when the plane of the moon and the plane of the earth intersect?

Eclipses

• Only happens at the full or new moon

• Shadow is cast over either the moon of the earth

• Orbs are either is a partial shadow: Penumbra

• Or In a total shadow: Umbra

Lunar Eclipse

• Earth is between sun and moon

• Earth’s shadow on the moon

• Only during the full moon

Solar Eclipse

• Moon is between the sun and the earth

• Moon’s shadow on the earth

• Only during the new moon

Formation • Many theories (did you really need to write this)

• Earth and moon formed at the same time

• Earth was spinning so fast that chunks of rock broke off

• Made of cheese from astral milk (did you really need to write this)

• Formed from a collision between the earth and a planet sized object 4.5 bya (billion years ago) (most accepted)

Name that phase

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• 1st Quarter

• 3rd quarter

Name that phase

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• Full

• New

Name that phase

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• 1st quarter

• 3rd quarter

Name that phase

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• Full

• New