Solar system

Inner planets

Inner planets

Sun

Earth

Mars

Mercury

Venus

moon

it helps to make stable climate and created a tidal rhythm that guides our seas .

the moon makes the earth much more livable

Eclipses

Solar ecipses

Lunar eclipses

  1. Earth block sun from moon all some
  2. Only happens during full moons
  3. big shadow penumbra

when a new moon moves between the earth and the sun and blocks sunlight

total eclipse is when the moon completely covers the sun. you can only see it if your standing within the umbral shadow.
path of totality is when the shadow moves.

People within the penumbral shadow only see a partial eclipse.

small dark shadow is umbra

full moons happen once every 29 days

Moon orbit earth 29.5 day

Moons orbit is tilted in relation to earth is reason why we don't have lunar eclipses every 29 days

earth moon sun don't always align

Everything living that we know of

the center of our life

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Jupiter

Saturn

uranus

Neptune

  1. total lunar eclipse - sun moon earth perfect alignment Falls in the umbra most red. red light bent in towards the moon. Redness depends on dust and clouds
  1. partial lunar eclipse - only part of the moon passes into the earth's umbra. earths shadow appears dark
  1. Penumbral lunar eclipse

annular eclipse is when the moon covers sun but too small.

Moons orbit is elliptical

Hybrid eclipse is when the position between the earth and sun are so Finley balanced that the curvature of the earth plays a role.