I was told that there is one day during the moon's cycle where the face of the moon appears upside down....The southern highlands are at the top of the moon...Is this true? and if it is...why? Or am I misunderstanding....
2006-09-23 13:23:07 · 6 answers · asked by Sillira 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I'm not talking about looking at the moon through a telescope...I know the lens will invert it....and I'm not saying the moon does actually turn upside down...perhaps it just appears that way....and I know that we only see one side of the moon because the revolution of the moon and the rotation of the earth are the same....
2006-09-23 13:36:46 · update #1
It is a question put forth by my friends professor and he said even if you google it you wont find the answer...I just thought maybe someone on here might know what he was talking about...I did a month long observation of the moon but perhaps it was a detail I had missed....
2006-09-23 13:41:30 · update #2
Someone is misunderstanding something! If you see the Moon when it is high up in the sky, in the South, you will see the "face" the way it is normally pictured (I am assuming you are viewing from the Northern Hemisphere). When the Moon rises in the East, it will look like the "face" is lying on its side (the side on our left). When it sets in the West it will look like the "face" is lying on its other side. Perhaps this is what the person meant?
If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, the Moon still rises in the East and sets in the West, but it will reach its highest point in the North, and when it does the "face" will look upside-down.
2006-09-23 13:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure how a moon can appear upside down.
May be the view of moon from Australia compared to view from Alaska might be looking upside down. Since both those places are far from equator, and near the poles. we have different upside views of moon from this positions at the same time
2006-09-23 21:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by donald 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone is either misinformed or pulling your leg. The moon's face never appears upside down. Of course, it does look upside down through a normal telescope, since the optics of the scope invert the image -- but this is true every day.
2006-09-23 20:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by Jack D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's not true. The moon's "face" is always toward Earth because of how it rotates, so what we see is always the same. You might be thinking of the phases of the moon where the moon appears to change from one side to the other.
2006-09-23 20:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by Blue Jean 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The moon never turns upside down... but the "face" does turn into a "rabbit" every time it is over Asia (that is their description of the pattern).
Aloha
2006-09-23 20:30:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you are misunderstanding
2006-09-23 20:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋