When your at the North pole you can see the m oon up one way,so from south pole is it upside down?

Question

Does that mean that the moon's face we see in picture books from Europe doesn't appear as a face in Australia? And if its up one way when it rises,is it up the other way when it sets?

Answer 1

No it would not be "upside down" it would be vertically reversed ot the other way up. To say something is upside down means there is a side or a view that is considered "up". People in the northern hemisphere have this obsession that theirs is the only valid view. They disparagingly talk about Australia as "down under" as though they were in some way superior. Well they are not.

North is placed at the top of maps because the early mapmakers all came from the northern hemisphere. It is a convention, human artefact. We southern hemisphere people accept the convention as it is convenient internationally but north is no more the right way up than south is.

Let us have some hemispheric equality round here. We are not upside down, I can assure you. I am the right way up and if you come here, so will you be.

Answer 2

Since the north pole of the moon points in (roughly) the same direction as the north pole of the earth, and since north is toward the horizon at the south pole, the moon would appear upside down at the south pole. In Australia it would depend on where the moon is in it's orbit...if it is very far south it would appear south of the zenith (some, not much) and 'normal'. If very far north in it's orbit it would appear upside down.

And, when rising and setting different edges (limbs) of the moon are, indeed, up: when rising, the west limb rises first and is up, and when setting the west limb sets first, so it is down.

Different cultures have different ideas of the "face on the moon"...we see a face, some see a rabbit, some see a lobster (!), and there probably are others.

Answer 3

When it rises and sets it is the same way up because the same side of the moon always points towards the earth.

I like the thought of this one and i would say that yes, the moon would look different (upside down) if you were to look at it from each of the poles.

Answer 4

if you can see the moon up riht in the north pole and see it up side down in the south pole then that woud explan the reason that the moon my be down on one side of the earth and the moon be up on the other side of the earth.