One side of the moon is always sunny and one side is always dark. The
moon turns on its axis once for each rotation of the earth, so only
one side is always facing the sun. When it is appoximately between
the earth and the sun, that is a new moon (not visible) because we are
looking at the unilluminated side of the moon. When the earth is
approximately between the sun and the moon we see a full moon because
we are looking at the entire illuminated side of the moon.


On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:17:32 -0700, Father Haskell
wrote:

Elie Gendloff wrote:

On the moon, it is either always sunny or always in the dark,

Explain lunar phases.

not 14
hours on and 14 hours off.

Earth days, not hours.