Can someone who's there are been there tell me if the Moon is upside down?
Can someone who's there are been there tell me if the Moon is upside down?
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I lol'd when I saw this thread, not gonna lie. The moon has an "up"?
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Thats why the water there flushes the other side around as well.
No, why the hell would it be. It's not going to change its orientation its in fucking orbit.
The question should read 'does the moon's appearance change relative to my vantage point on Earth?' In which case, yes but not in any discernible way.
Also, water 'flushing' or rotating the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere has to do with the Coriolis effect which relates to the Earth's rotation and angular momentum.
I won't lie, I hurt my head thinking about it.
Just think of it this way.
When considering that the distance between opposite sides of the planet represents a rotation of 180*degrees, and we know that the moon is gravitationally locked to our planet, meaning it always faces one direction, then all you would need to do, is take any picture of the moon, and rotate it 180* degrees. That is how you would get its representation in the opposite side of the globe.
Took a little thinking, but the fact that the moon does not rotate but is locked gravitationally to our planet was the key.
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the moon rotates ( AFAIK every celestial body in universe is known to rotate thus far), but his rotation period matches his orbit period more or less. the "more or less" is the cause you can see more than 50 % of moon's surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration#Lunar_libration
Well, any picture of the moon can be rotated 360 degrees in any spot.
However, when we look at the moon we start at the horizon and look up - and that gives that moon is upside down:
https://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.c...ence-fact-514/
That suggests something odd when you are close to the equator - the moon is up-side-down when it sets (and turned 90 degrees compared to north/south). I assume someone can provide pictures of that.
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Up compared to the horizon - as indicated above it is not intuitive.
Last edited by Forogil; 2016-01-31 at 07:55 PM.
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