2006-12-03 04:56:57 · 20 answers · asked by Johannes V 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The side the sun isn't reflecting on.
2006-12-03 04:57:59 · answer #1 · answered by Tie Breaker 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The moon spins round its axis. However, to explain this, you'll need two tennis balls or similar. Place one tennis ball in the middle of your table. Place black tape or paint over one half of the other tennis ball. Take the painted ball and place it about one foot away from the centre ball. The centre ball is the Earth and the half painted ball is the moon. Now move the moon tennis ball around the earth ball, keeping the painted side towards the earth ball. When you have completed a 360 degree circuit, the moon ball (as with the real Moon) will have rotated once about its axis. Hope this is not too complicated to follow.
The reason we do not see the far side of the moon, is because the Moon rotates about its axis once every time it rotates around the Earth, thus we only see the sun ward side - and only then if the sky is clear.
To find out more about the Moon and her phases pay a visit to Stone Henge. The standing portals are placed so as to view the moon rising when the sky is clear.
The Moon goddess of the Island of Britain is Estora (or some such spelling) but you'll need to wait until Easter to celebrate her arrival - the full Moon.
2006-12-03 13:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the moon haves an axis and its axis goes around the earth once a month in not shore how fast it spends on its axis but my ges is faster then the earth spins the dark side of the moon is the side of the moon that is in the shadow of its self the sun light cant hit it like when its night time hear that wood be like the dark side of the earth but it’s the moon
2006-12-03 13:05:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The moon was connected to Earth and it spins on Earths axis, that's why it seems to still be connected to us and the other side doesn't come around. The sunlight does hit the other side sometimes.
2006-12-03 13:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The moon does rotate on its own axis. In fact, the moon's rate of rotatation equals one full revolution around the earth. This is why we always see the same side of the moon. The same side is always facing the earth due to that rotation = revolution.
2006-12-03 13:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by Silas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the moon is tidally locked by the earths gravity so it dosen't spin on it's axis. there isn't really a dark side, it's called the far side. the sun shines on it just as much as it does on the side we see. for example when it's a crescent moon, 3/4 of the far side is lit by the sun and in a solar eclipse the whole far side would be lit.
2006-12-04 12:32:49 · answer #6 · answered by andyprefab 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes? it rotates at the same rate as it orbits the earth! which is why we always see the same side! which is why it has a day that last 28 days long! so there is no dark side but there is a side we don't see from our point of view on earth unless you were an astronaut that went around the moon or look up pictures of the other side of the moon on the net!
2006-12-03 12:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Accept the defination of rotation to "causing to face all degrees of a circle" in other words, a rotating body will face all 360 degrees of a circle.
Accept the definition of revolving as "one body moving in a circular orbit around another body" (yes I know a revolving door only rotates and in some cases revolving and rotating are interchangable, just trying to keep it simple)
place a chair in the middle of the room so that you can walk around it. start with your left shoulder facing the chair, and look ahead and pick a spot you can easaily see and remember. (a reference point)
walk around the chair in a circle with out turning your body, untill you come back to the starting point. Your shoulder always faced the chair yet you saw all points of the circle as you walked around the chair. You rotated and revolved once, just like the moon. Notice too that your right shoulder faced all points of a circle, as the back side, not dark side, of the moon does. there is no dark side.
2006-12-03 15:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the moon rotates at the same rate the earth does, one side is always facing the earth. the dark side is the other side away from us. its not always dark, it depends on what part of the new moon its at. i.e. full, half, waxing gibbous, etc. so if its a half moon then the suns light is on half of both sides. the dark side and our side. we just call it dark because you cant ever see it from earth.
2006-12-03 13:01:20 · answer #9 · answered by kel§ey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no dark side to the moon, it's all dark, actually
I know this because Pink Floyd sang it
If you want to know anything about science, refer to Pink Floyd. Refer to Monty Python's Life of Brian for religious questions, and Ali G for English studies ...
probably why I failed my exams
2006-12-03 13:05:15 · answer #10 · answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is stuck in tidal lock with earth. the dark side of thew moon is the side that never faces the sun due the the rotation of the moon.
2006-12-03 15:26:00 · answer #11 · answered by Sir CJ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋