Download Moon Phases Diagram With Earth Images. The lunar phases gradually change over a synodic month (about 29.53 days). During a lunar eclipse , earth comes between the sun and the moon, blocking the sunlight falling on the moon.

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547 x 531 photo description: Students will create this diagram showing the phases of the moon. Learn more about moon phases, a waxing and waning crescent or gibbous moon and the lunar cycles of earth's moon each month at the moon is illuminated by light from the sun, which observers on earth see reflected off the lunar surface.

It was created 4.6 billion years ago, and it is widely accepted that it was created the moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times.

The phases include new moon, waning crescent, last quarter, waning. Students will work in small groups. As the moon orbits around. Half of the moon's surface is always illuminated by sunlight.