The Moon brainpop movie

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The Moonbrainpop movie
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Moon Facts

• A planetlike satellite that revolves around the
  Earth
• No Air or Liquid on the Moon
• Temperature Range 100oC to -170oC
• Moons gravity is 1/6th as strong as Earths
• Diameter is less than the distance across the
  U.S.

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Moon History

• 1609 Galileo Galilei constructed his own
  telescope and viewed the moon and its craters and
  marias for the first time.
• Craters are formed from impacts of meteoroids and
  rocks from space.
• Maria are dark flat areas. Galileo thought they
  may have been oceans. Instead they were once
  flooded with molten material billions of years
  ago.

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Maria
Craters
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Why do we see the Moon?

• The Moon does not shine on its own. It is
  illuminated by the Sun.
• Half of the moon is always in darkness and half
  is always in the sun

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Motions of the Moon

• 1 Moon Year 27.3 days to revolve around
  the Earth
• 1 Moon Day 27.3 days to rotate on its axis
  one time

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Sides of the Moon
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• We only see the Near side of the Moon.
• We can not view the Far side of the Moon from
  Earth.
• Misunderstanding
• There is no dark side of the moon. It gets
  sunlight, we just can not view it from Earth.

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Why do we only see the same side of the Moon?
Because the Moons rotation on its axis and its
revolution around the Earth is the same. We
always see the Near Side.
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What are the Moon Phases? Phases of the Moon go
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• As it revolves around the Earth, we get different
  views of the near side these are the phases of
  the Moon.

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New Moon
Waxing Crescent
Waning Crescent
3rd Quarter
1st Quarter
Waning Gibbous
Waxing Gibbous
Full Moon