The moon has completed three quarters of its revolution around the earth during the same time , how much has the moon rotated?
Biology · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still.
The Moon's visible face appears to be more or less illuminated over the course of the month. This is due to our changing view of the Moon's day and night side .The Moon can only pass through Earth's shadow during a single day of the month: Full Moon. At other times of the month, the Moon is far from Earth's shadow. So Earth's shadow plays no part in the cycle of the phases of the Moon.
There are 6 phases of the moon:
New moon
Crescent
First quarter
Gibbous
Full
Third quarter