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Why Does The Moon Change Shape?

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    The moon itself does not change shape.  What changes is how much of it is visible to the earth, depending upon it's position relative to the earth and to the sun.
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    Ejsiegal 

    answered 11 months ago

      The moon actually does not have light. It is a silvery kind of heavenly body that rotates around the earth. Just like a piece of white paper, if there is light it will shine but if it is murky it wiil be dark just like everything else around. Then how does this has got to do with the changing of its shape from time to time?

      As most of us know, the moon rotates around the earth and at almost every instance light is reflected from the sun to the moon then towards the earth. But not all of the surface of the moon is hit by sunlight. Just in the same way as the earth, half of it is daytime and the other half is nightime. It is due to this shadow on the surface of the moon that at some different stages in its rotation around the earth it will appear in different shapes and sizes. These are called "The Phases of the Moon".
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      Guest 

      answered 4 years ago

        Not aware that it has, at least not in human history. And we cant know for sure even how it came to be. One theory is it came out of the Earth in the billion year old solar system creation times (not creation, but universe evolution).
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        Eyenzensky 

        answered 10 months ago

        It doesn't its just the sun reflecting off it.
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        Guest 

        answered 7 months ago

        By the solar flare
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        Guest 

        answered 7 months ago

          No it doesnt but the clouds cover up parts of the moon this make the moon look like its changing shape
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          Guest 

          answered 6 months ago

          The moon changes shape because its the sun reflecting of it
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          Guest 

          answered 4 months ago

          Well the moon changes shape because it loves moving god can't somebody move just cause they want to god guys cut the moon some slack
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          Guest 

          answered 6 months ago

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