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THE MOON - Coggle Diagram
THE MOON
Phase changes
We have a slightly different view of the Moon each night. We describe how the Moon looks with the eight Moon phases or shapes
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- “moonlight” is actually just sunlight reflecting off of the Moon’s surface.
- The Sun’s light comes from one direction, and it always illuminates, or lights up, one half of the Moon – the side of the Moon that is facing the Sun. The other side of the Moon is dark.
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Colour saturation
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To avoid the image looking unatural use the layering tool on photoshop, called an adjustment layer.
The colours allow us to understand the mineralogy of the moons surface, as well as the chemical composition of the lunar rocks.
Colour indications:
- blue/orange = volcanic lava flows
- dark blue = titanium bearing minerals
- pink = iron lacking, aluminium rich minerals
- orange/purple = low in iron and titanium
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Lunar Events
Lunar eclipses
prenumbral eclipse occurring on November 29-30 over europe
the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.
Supermoon:
Occurring on November the 15th and October 16th
A Moon that is full and at its closest point in its orbit around Earth
New moon
A new moon represents the start of a new lunar cycle
When the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude
The lunar disk is not visible to the unaided eye
Blue moon
A phenomenon whereby the moon appears bluish owing to smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere.
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