Moon phases 2018

Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator.

Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator. The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year , at hourly intervals. Until the end of , the initial Dial-A-Moon image will be the frame from this animation for the current hour. More in this series: Moon Phase and Libration Gallery.

Moon phases 2018

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Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator. The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year , at hourly intervals. Until the end of , the initial Dial-A-Moon image will be the frame from this animation for the current hour. More in this series: Moon Phase and Libration Gallery. Its laser altimeter LOLA and camera LROC are recording the rugged, airless lunar terrain in exceptional detail, making it possible to visualize the Moon with unprecedented fidelity. This is especially evident in the long shadows cast near the terminator, or day-night line. The pummeled, craggy landscape thrown into high relief at the terminator would be impossible to recreate in the computer without global terrain maps like those from LRO. The Moon always keeps the same face to us, but not exactly the same face. Because of the tilt and shape of its orbit, we see the Moon from slightly different angles over the course of a month.

Moon phases 2018

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Time UTC. Craters near the terminator are labeled. The Moon also approaches and recedes from us, appearing to grow and shrink. The part of the Moon facing us is completely in shadow then. The subsolar and sub-Earth points are the locations on the Moon's surface where the sun or the Earth are directly overhead, at the zenith. The Moon always keeps the same face to us, but not exactly the same face. Download Options x jpeg Moon Phase and Libration, Click on the image to download a high-resolution version with labels for craters near the terminator. Visible to the southeast in early evening, up for most of the night. Collected with LOLA. By first quarter, the Moon is high in the sky at sunset and sets around midnight. When the Moon is at the 3 o'clock position, the ground we're standing on is tilted to the left when we look at the Moon. The animation archived on this page shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year , at hourly intervals. At any given time, half of the Moon is in sunlight, and the subsolar point is in the center of the lit half.

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When a month is compressed into 24 seconds, as it is in this animation, our changing view of the Moon makes it look like it's wobbling. In the HD-resolution frames, the Earth is 50 pixels wide, the Moon is 14 pixels wide, and the distance between them is about pixels, on average. It appears to roll back and forth around the sub-Earth point. The orbit is slightly elliptical, and because of that, the Moon's distance from the Earth varies between 28 and 32 Earth diameters, or about , and , kilometers. At the 9 o'clock position, it's tilted to the right. Crater labels. We're just turned around, looking in the opposite direction. Moon Phase and Libration, It goes through a monthly sequence of phases as the sun angle changes. Note too that the Earth appears to go through phases just like the Moon does.