... is when the Moon passes between us and the Sun, putting us in the Moon's shadow ... Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the ...
... is the brightest thing in the sky (the Moon this week rises late, after Venus sets ... than the Earth's, Venus can go through dramatic phases just like the Moon does ...
... Prospector to the Moon. ... wondered when we would go back to the Moon (actually, there have been a few probes ... to look for useful natural resources on the Moon, such as water, minerals and gases ...
... Triton, Neptune's largest moon, has ice volcanoes. ... But probably the most interesting volcanoes are on Jupiter's moon Io. ... Io is about the same size as our own Moon, but could not be more different. ...
... The Daylight Moon. ... The brightest is obviously the Sun. The second brightest is the Moon. ... The Moon is so bright that it casts clear shadows at night, you can read by it, and ...
... path on the sky that the Moon takes, and so the Moon does actually pass close to or ... calls when the Moon is near Jupiter; people wonder what it is they saw near the Moon ...
... In this case, the Earth exerts tides on the Moon, which tends to line up the Moon over the Earth's equator (in our case, the Sun exerts a hefty tide on the Moon as well, which is why the Moon does not orbit directly over the Earth's equator). ...