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If observed from the moon, the Earth would appear to have phases like the moon appears from Earth. The Earth would wax and wane as its illuminated portion changes from a thin crescent to full Earth and back again over the course of about 27 days. The phases would always be opposite to the moon's phases as seen from Earth - a full Earth would occur when the moon is a thin crescent from our perspective. Additionally, the Earth would remain stationary in the sky rather than rising and setting each day like the moon appears to from Earth, since one side of the moon always faces our planet.

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If observed from the moon, the Earth would appear to have phases like the moon appears from Earth. The Earth would wax and wane as its illuminated portion changes from a thin crescent to full Earth and back again over the course of about 27 days. The phases would always be opposite to the moon's phases as seen from Earth - a full Earth would occur when the moon is a thin crescent from our perspective. Additionally, the Earth would remain stationary in the sky rather than rising and setting each day like the moon appears to from Earth, since one side of the moon always faces our planet.

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a) What will happen if the earth stops rotating on its axis ?


 If suddenly Earth stopped spinning , the atmosphere would continue moving at 1100
mph at the equator . Land masses would be wiped clean of anything not attached to
bedrock . However , if it happened over billions of year this would not be the case . If
spinning stopped completely you would get ½ year daylight and ½ year night . The
different temperature situation would change wind patterns so that air would move
from the equator to the poles rather than parallel to the equator like they are now .
Other affects include the degradation of Earth’s magnetic field and perceptions in the
sun’s motion .

b) What will happen if the earth slowly on its axis ?


 Days and nights would be longer and our weight would be more . if it was slower then
one full rotation would take more than 24 hours , thus making days and nights longer .
Our weight would be more , because as the Earth’s gravity and the centrifugal force
would be more as gravity would remain constant but centrifugal force would decrease
. There would also be a temperature change as each hemisphere (Eastern and
Western) would get more time to warm up from the Sun’s rays .

c) Why there are planets that have 2 or more moons ?


 Most planets form when the title chunks of rock in the solar system started to come
together and form larger and larger planets . If these planets were close to asteroid
belts , you may get more moons because those asteroid will be captured by the
planets . So, planets like Mars who has two moons , or Pluto who has five moons ,
often those are near asteroid belts and they have few more moons than some of the
from outside our solar system . Some of these objects came in , in an early
bombardment period and smashed into the Earth . And that’s what frmed our moon .
Why some planets have many moons is basically because of their size . The planets in
our solar system that have more moons are the large planets such as Jupiter , Saturn ,
Uranus , and Neptune . They’re so big that they can collect a lot of moon . If comets
swing by them , they can sometimes absorb comets they can grab asteroids and there is
more left behind that swirled around the planet and it left more moons . We can look at
the number of moons in the solar system . Mercury has zero moons and is close to the
Sun . Venus has zero moons , also close to the Sun . Earth has our one , which was
probably a large impact that came from farther out . And Mars has two moons . All of
these planets very close to that great , big Sun and the Sun absorbed most of those
objects . Mars probably has two because there’s a big asteroid belt between Mars and
Jupiter . Jupiter has large 50 , the largest planet . Saturn , second largest planet , has 53 .
Uranus also very large , 27 . Neptune , farthest away has 14 , And then , there’s another
kind of rocky asteroid belt called the Kuiper belt , Pluto out there has five . Just because
it was near those little rocky leftovers , so it could grab some of them . So , why do some
planets have more moons than others it is mostly because of their size , the larger
planets have more moons .

d) If you are on the moon , explain your observation about the shape of
earth.
 If I were on the near side of Moon , the Earth would always be in the sky . And if I were
on the far side , I’d never see it . If I were standing on the Moon , looking up , I’d see
the Earth , hanging in the sky forever or for however long my robot body holds out . It
would go through phases , like the Moon , moving from total darkness , though
quarter illumination . Full Earth , and back again . But the features on the Earth would
be changing . The face of the Earth would be illuminated , and I’d see the entire planet
turning throughout the day and I could use it to cheat on Geography tests . It wouldn’t
be totally dark on the night side because “humans” . I’d see those beautiful blobs of
stringy light on the shadowed parts of the Earth . Our Moon follows an elliptical path
around the Earth, getting as close as 363,000 km and as far as 405,000 km . This
means the Earth would get bigger and smaller in the sky . As Earth is much larger than
the Moon , it would take up 13 times as much area . The Earth wouldn’t actually hang
motionless in the sky . We see lunar libration from our perspective which lets us peek
around the corner of the Moon . But from the Moon , we’d see the Earth move back
and forth in the sky over 27 days .

e) Does earth look like it has phases if you observe from the moon ?
 As seen from the moon , the Earth waxes and wanes – just as the moon does as seen
from our world . I know that one side of the moon always faces us . So , I’d would have
to be on that side to see any Earth at all . But from any part of the Moon’s near side , I
could see Earth wax and wane – just as the Moon does as seen from our world , at any
given time , I can see varying portions of that lighted half – or various phases of the
Earth or Moon .
 The phases are always the reverse of each other . When we see the moon as nearly
full , any moon people would see a slim crescent Earth . When we see a completely full
moon , the Moon , Earth and Sun are in a line – with Earth in the middle . Then people
on the moon wouldn’t see Earth at all because it’d be hidden in the sun glare .
 Also consider the moon’s slow rotation . The moon to rise and set as seen from Earth
not because of the moon’s motion – but because Earth spins once a day on its axis .
Because one side of the moon always faces us , from most places on the Moon , Earth
doesn’t appear to rise or set . Instead , from a given point on the moon’s near side , I’d
always see Earth hanging in my sky . Meanwhile , the Sun would rise and set once each
month – each time the Moon spun once on its axis , thereby keeping that single face
turned toward Earth . So from any spot on the moon , day and night would sweep over
you once a month .

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