Hay Why can't u see the Moon as a round everyday??

Question

Why u can see the moon in hemisphere???
Please If u know the answer .. write it clearly.. and properly..But don't give stupid answers please

First answer is Very Bad..
which ever angle u see .. the sphere look like Sphere Only Not hemisphe..
Please give me good answers only if u know

Answer 1

What you see of the moon is actually sunlight reflecting off the surface of the moon. Since the earth is spinning (rotating) and also moving in an orbit at the same time, the angle at which you will view the moon from a given location changes constantly. The sun is still shining directly on the moon, illuminating the closer half, but we can't see all of that half at most times. This is what gives us our 'phases' of the moon, such as full, new, waning crescent, etc. When there is a full moon, you are at a location on the earth where you can actually see the fully illuminated side.

Answer 2

It's because what you see is only the part which is under the sun's light. The rest of the disk is there, but it's black and you dont't see it without instruments. If you have good sight, you can remark that there is no star there, but this is not obvious.

Since the moon is a sphere, the sun's light covers half of it, and depending where is the sun and where is the earth, the shape that you see is different. When the sun is on the right, you see a half moon, when the sun is on the back of the earth, you see full moon...

Answer 3

The orbit of the Moon about the Earth causes an approximate 13 degree per day movement of its terminator (light/dark boundary) when viewed from the Earth. Since the moon has no atmosphere, we see only light reflected from the surface, This causes apparent changes in phase of the moon. The exception to this is at times near the "new Moon" when the moon appears as a dark, haloed disc

Answer 4

The moon has half of its sphere constantly lit up by the sun (day) and half in the dark (night) - just like earth.
As the moon orbits the earth (taking 28 days) we see different proportions of the daylight side of the moon. Sometimes we see the whole daylight view (full moon) sometimes we see the whole night view (new moon). In between we see the different amounts of day lit side which appear as different shapes or phases.
From new moon (no shape) we see the moon grow (or wax) through crescent, first quarter (half a disc), gibbous (oval) to full. The shape then gets progressively smaller (wanes) back to new. The whole thing takes 28 days.
A waxing moon looks bright on the right hand side and a waning moon bright on the left hand side.

Answer 5

The moon has four phases New moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter. These are then split into four transitional periods-
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, wanning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent then the new moon.
The new moon rises at dawn and sets at sunset and is basically invisible. The first quarter is at a 90 degree angle from the sun it rises at noon and sets at midnight and is visible in the late afternoon and evening. The full moon is when the moon is opposite the sun and rises at sunset and sets at dawn and is visible all night. The last quarter sees the moon again at a 90 degree angle from the sun and rises at midnight sets at noon and is visible half of the night into the early morning.

If you go to the site below it has a great animation flick. Hope you find it useful.

http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/pub/public_html//article.php?story=2004062914222354

Answer 6

this link explains this well
when wiki opens click on the blue links for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lunar_phase

the earth rotates around the sun
the moon rotates around the earth
for you to see the moon a round all the time
both the earth has stopped rotating around the sun
and the moon has stopped rotating around the earth

Answer 7

It was in 5th standard in school where we were taught about this subject in geography. It depends on rotation and revolution of earth, it depends on latitude and longitude of earth. It is a long story but very interesting, You better search it on yahoo search , as it may be explanation of few pages.

Answer 8

Because the moon increases and discreases day by day.
It is natural and it is the rool of universe.

Answer 9

big b is absolutely right. follow him.
i am really sorry if u feel my answer is an stupid answer. but i felt like saying this to u

Answer 10

cos u get to see it from a different angle everyday..due to earths revloution