Daytime.
As earth rotates the part that is facing the sun has day light.
Yes, light travels through a "one way mirror" but only a small part of the light, most of the light is reflected. In fact light will travel both ways through a "one way mirror"!What makes a "one way mirror" appear to act one way is if the room on one side is brightly lit and the room on the other side is dimly lit, in the brightly lit room the reflected light from the brightly lit room swamps out the small amount of transmitted light from the dimly lit room and the mirror appears to be an ordinary mirror, but in the dimly lit room the transmitted light from the brightly lit room swamps out the small amount of reflected light from the dimly lit room and the mirror appears to be a window.
You divide the Earth's orbital period around the Sun (365.25 days) by the Earth's period of rotation about its own axis (1 day). This ratio will give you the number of times the Earth rotates on its axis while completing one orbit around the Sun, which is approximately 365.25.
No, the far side of the moon never receives direct sunlight. This is because the moon is tidally locked with the Earth, meaning only one side faces us. The far side remains in darkness, except for reflected light from the Earth.
about once. The moon rotates roughly once in that period, as it completes one orbit about the Earth. This keeps the same side facing the Earth at all times.
The Moon is lit up because it reflects sunlight that hits its surface. As the Moon orbits the Earth, the angle at which sunlight hits its surface changes, creating different phases of illumination as seen from Earth.
There is about 50% of the Earth that is lit at one time. Ray of light fall paralell across the Earths surface, only lighting 50% of the Earth at one time.
One side of the moon is always lit because of a phenomenon called "synchronous rotation," where the moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits the Earth. This causes one side of the moon to constantly face towards Earth while the other side remains in darkness.
The moon appears as a semi-circle a week after the full moon because it has moved halfway through its lunar cycle, known as the waning gibbous phase. During this phase, the illuminated side of the moon that we see from Earth is gradually decreasing until it reaches the third quarter moon phase.
eaither a waxing or waining cresent...if the right side of the moon is lit it is waxing if the left side is lit it is waining
At any given time, half of the moon is lit up by the sun, but the portion visible from Earth can vary due to the moon's orbit. This is why we see different phases as it orbits the Earth.
The sun doesn't go anywhere. It stays at the center of our solar system. However, the sun APPEARS to "go away" because of the rotation of Earth. As Earth rotates, one side of Earth is lit by the Sun, and one side isn't. This is a 24 hour long cycle. So, to answer your question, the Sun APPEARS to go to the other side of Earth, even though this is because it is the Earth that is actually moving, not the Sun.
The Sun appears to set because the Earth rotates, turning one side of the Earth away from the Sun for a period we call "night"
All sides are lit up. Only one side at a time. There is a term called the dark side of the moon. This term relates to the fact that the moon doesnt spin on its axis like the earth does and one side faces the earth all of the time. The dark side refers not to the abscence of light but radio waves. During the Apollo missions to the moon, as a spacecraft went behind the moon (in relation to the earth) It went into whats called a radio blackout. It was called the dark side because up until the first spacecraft orbited the moon, it had never been seen by man before.
No. The amount of the Moon visible from the Earth varies, depending on the phase of the Moon. At Full Moon, you see nearly all of the Moon's illuminated side. At New Moon, you see nearly none of it. At Quarter Moon, you see about half of it.
The shape of the moon appears to change because of its position in relation to the Earth and the Sun. This causes different amounts of sunlight to be reflected from the moon as it orbits the Earth, creating the phases we observe from Earth. The moon itself does not physically change shape.
You divide the Earth's orbital period around the Sun (365.25 days) by the Earth's period of rotation about its own axis (1 day). This ratio will give you the number of times the Earth rotates on its axis while completing one orbit around the Sun, which is approximately 365.25.