what is the arrangement of Earth, the moon, and the sun during a lunar eclipse?
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The Earth is between the moon and the Sun.  \n\nSomeone standing on the moon would see a solar eclipse.  \n\nSolar eclipse  Sun   Moon   Earth\n\nLunar eclipse  Sun   Earth  Moon
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the answer is actually no, i say this as i assumen you a refering to a total eclipse. this is when the moon covers the sun and makes everything go blck. there are however partial eclipses(eclipse) on all planets as this is when some object(moon or planet) blocks some of the sunlight from the planet or moon. \n\nwe have an odd situatin when the distance from the sun and the moon to earch exactly match the size of the rays hit by the earth from the sun. that means that the moon as big as it is is just the correct disstance to cover the suns exactly in a total eclipse.\n\nthe same thigs happen with other planets such as venus. when you see it infront of the sun its causeing and eclipse, its blocking some light from the sun, however its so small and so faraway that you cant notice it.\n\nand if you mean do all the planets align with each other the answer is yes. it dont happen very often and i cant tell you when ti happened last or when it will happen, but if you think of it like marbles in a row, and you have your head behind the furthiest you cant see the first or anyothers sept the one your behind. the palants do that.
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1.  Longer shadows\n2.  The moon's gravitational pull and the sun's gravity also\n3.  The sun\n4.  counterclockwise, west, east\n5.  D\n6.  The Earth's Rotation\n7.  The earth is at a slant compared to it's solar revolution, so the earth recieves more sunlight in different areas, and the earth's solar revolution isn't a perfect circle, AND the earth wobbles\n8.  The sun's reflection causes the moon to light up, and so the sun's position determin's the shape.\n9.  the earth and the sun and the moon have to line up in a linear fashion, perfectly, not just good enough for a full moon
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The moon has a 28-day orbit around the earth so naturally there is a part of that cycle when it will be on the same side of the earth as the sun. Note though that you cannot have a full moon in the sky during the day since a full moon means that the earth, sun and moon all line up. You can have a new moon in the sky during the day since the moon is then between us and the sun and all we see is the dark side.
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They are not the same.  During a full solar eclipse, the moon's shadow is only a spot on earth because the moon is much smaller than the earth, you have to be inside that spot on earth to see the full solar eclipse.\n\nDuring a full lunar eclipse, the earth's shadow covers the entire moon, and you don't see the moon no matter where on earth you are.
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To begin with, we should know that the earth revolves around the sun and the moon revoloves around the earth. When the moon comes in between the earth and the sun and the three are in a straight line, some portion of the earth, which is facing the moon experiences the solar eclipse.\nHowever, when the earth comes in between sun and the moon, then lunar eclipse takes place.( Moon does not have any light of its own, we see it shining because of the sun light. Hence when the sunlight is blocked there is no light for moon to shine and there is lunar eclipse)
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the sun and or the moon
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the moon goes thru a cycle of 4 phases each month(one a week). They are first, full, third and new.\nThink of a clock(with the earth in the very middle and the sun off to the left).Then first quarter would be down at 6, full would be over at 3, third would be at 12 and new(which is between the earth and the sun) would be at 9.
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No, the moon's plane is on a 5-degree tilt from the earth-sun plane, which means the moon is slightly above or below the earth most of the time.  We only experience eclipses when the moon just happens to be passing through (on its way from below or from above the earth) to the other extreme, and the sun happens to be in line.  Eclipses are fairly rare.\n\n\n***BTW, Melindora is wrong... total solar and total lunar eclipses happen on the earth about once every 12-18 months.  They are not always easy to get to, as the eclipse path might be in Antarctica or somewhere.  Partial eclipses happen even more often.
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No.  The angle between the sun and the moon as viewed from the earth is 180 degrees for the full moon pahse.  This means that the full moon and the sun are always on opposite sides of the earth.\n\nSince the moon is not always "in plane" with the sun, and your horizon is not perfect, it may be possible on occasion, depending on the geography of the horizon, and one's latitute to see the full moon rising as the sun is setting, or to see the full moon setting as the sun is rising.
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It is a lot easier to demonstrate this with graphics than trying to explain it in text.  You can likely find a good diagram if you go to google it.\n\nFirst imagine the sun.  Now imagine the earth revolving around the sun.  Keep in mind that the earth and the sun are both extremely small compared to the distance that the earth is from the sun.  this means it's like two specks of dust revolving around each other in a basketball court, to give some perspective.\n\nNow imagine the moon revolving around the earth but ignoring gravitational effects of the sun (for simplicity).  Since the earth is so small compared to these revolutions, imagine that the earth very rarely blocks the light from the sun shining on the moon.\n\nNow when you observe the moon, if it is roughly between you and the sun, it is the backside of the moon that is lit.  This means the only part of the moon that you see is the shadow - or the new moon.  If when you observe the moon it is roughly behind the earth, you get to see the part of the moon that is being shined on by the sun - a full moon.  Since the moon revolves around the earth at a rate different from the rate at which the earth spins on its axis, the moon will change its orientation to give us our progression through the phases of the moon.\n\nJust an additional bit - eclipses are those rare times when the earth's shadow actually DOES hit the moon.. making what would've been a full moon into something else (a lunar eclipse).  The more commonly noticed (due to the drastic change in light during the day :D ) solar eclipses are when the moon directly blocks the sun's light from the earth.  These occur at regular intervals over series' of years.
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the light side of the moon move in front of the sun causing it to form the image you see that is know as the solar eclipse\n(since the dark side of the moon is facing you then it's clearly dark, and the sun's behind it so light shines around it)
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First, you must picture in your mind the 3 celestial bodies: sun, earth and moon. Picture the moon circling the earth: now it is between the earth and the sun, now it is at the other side of the earth, now it comes back again between earth and sun... As you know it takes about 4 weeks for the moon to make an entire circle around the earth.\nWhat happens when the moon is between us and the sun? well, it receives light from the sun on the face that is turned that way, so  we can't see it at the moment. That's why we can't see the new moon! It's there is the sky, but not lighted in the side facing us!\nThen 2 weeks later the moon is on the opposite side. The face that is facing the sun - and reflecting all that sunlight - is also facing the earth! So we see it fully - full moon.\nBut the path of the moon is not entirely on the same plane as us and the sun, there is a slight angle!!  Only sometimes it happens that the shadow of the earth catches the moon when it's full (and when it is perfectly aligned with the earth and the sun). THAT's your eclipse!!
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There is a lunar eclipse.
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Think of three balls in a gym.  a Basket ball, a golf ball, and a tennis ball.  Now think of the basket ball as being lit, its the biggest so we will pretend its the sun.  the earth would be the tennis ball, and the golf ball would be the moon.  well when the golf ball got between the sun and the earth it would create a cast shadow on the tennis ball, but its not big enough to put the entire tennis ball in shadow... that is why only part of the earth can see the eclipse.
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The phases of the moon occur due to its relative position to us and the sun. The sun always shines on half of the moon (except on the rare occassion when the earth is in the way causing a lunar eclipse). If the moon is behind the earth, we see it as a full moon as we can see all of the lit side. When the moon is beside the earth, we see half the lit side and half the side in shadow, which appears to us as a half moon. When it's in front of the earth its a new moon which isn't visible as we can only see the side of the moon in shadow. In between the stages we see the crescent waxing and waning moons.
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Day or night, you are seeing the portion of the moon that is facing the sun. The only time Earth blocks illumination of the moon is during a lunar eclipse, which happens only two or three times a year.