Do all parts of the moon have day and night?

Answer 1

No. The Moon doesn't rotate, so there's a dark side of the moon that never goes sunlight.

Answer 2

With the exception of the poles (north lunar pole and south lunar pole) all parts of thee moon experience day and night. Because the moon's rotation matches its orbital period, one side of the moon is always facing the earth. What we call the dark side of the moon is the part of the moon that always faces away from earth. It still receives light; when we are seeing a "new moon", the side of the moon facing the earth is facing away from the sun, but the dark side of the moon is fully illuminated. From sunrise to sunrise on any give part of the moon would be about 27 days. At the poles, the sun would appear to just ride along the horizon, never fully setting, and never really rising. On the moon's south pole, there are many deep craters that are in permanent shadow, and so never experience daylight at all. So, to sum up: The south pole and north pole of the moon do not have a day and night, parts of the south are permanently in night, and much of the north is permanently in day. The rest of the moon experiences a 27 earth day long day and night cycle.

Answer 3

yes all parts of the moon have day and night. this way the moon people know when to go to bed

Answer 4

Yes. Even though we only see one side there is day and night everywhere. Half the moon is always in daylight so when we see various quarters the opposite side of the moon is lit.

The moon does rotate in relation to the sun but not the Earth.

Answer 5

The moon does not rotate on its axis, however it does rotate around the Earth which rotates around the sun. Therefor as a spherical object the moon will have sunlight touch almost all its surface once a day. Since the moon wobbles a slight amount there may on any given day be a small area at either pole that may not receive any sunlight for brief periods of time (same as the Earth at the poles).

Answer 6

Day & evening are led to because of solar (like Earth; even on Moon). So New Moon to New Moon is a million Lunar day lasting 29.53059 Earth days & day (and evening) lasts for 14days 6hours 22mnts a million.40 9 secs. Axial tilt : a million.5424° (to ecliptic), 6.687° (to orbit plane). because that is a million.5424° with respect to solar. there's a polar cap of that quantity with axis (like a Gyro) pointing to a niche interior the celebs (Moon should be having its Pole celeb). alongside with Earth it caries this tilt alongside and Moon has synchronous equinoxes and solstices with Earth, yet at slightly distinction (differing from the terrestrial ones interior of a era less than a 12 months). The solar's rays touching a spread (/) may have the intensity lessened by technique of Cos /.

Answer 7

Yes but a moon daytakes about 28 to 30 earth days to repeat itself as its rotation is nearly equal to its orbit around us.

Answer 8

Yes, all parts of the moon have day and night. The reason is simple -- the moon rotates on its axis just like Earth rotates on its axis. (..at the equator the moon rotates at 10.3 mph..)

Always amazes me how many 'experts' around Yahoo claim that the moon doesn't rotate.

Answer 9

no i do not believe so i dont think the moon rotates it has a dark side and a light side but i am not 100% on that i would look it up its good question

Answer 10

Day and night is based upon rotation of a planet/satellite. The moon is effectively dead, and does not rotate, therefore some parts constantly have light and others are constantly dark (aside from when it is eclipsed from the Sun by earth).

Answer 11

THis is what happens when you ask yahoos a serious question.

Of course it does, the day is about 15 earth days long and night is about 15 days long.