Moon Features
A deep indention in the moon
What is a crater?
When we cannot see the moon.
What is new moon?
The longest day of the year.
What is the Summer Solstice?
The reason sunspots are black.
Why is they are relatively cooler?
What is a spring tide?
A material that is blasted off the Moon.
What is ejecta?
When we see a complete cirlce of the moon.
What is full moon?
These happen when the moon passes directly between the Sun and Earht and blocks the sun from view.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
The arcs of solar flares that curve back toward the Sun's surface.
What is a prominence?
The tide that happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are at a 90 degree angle to each other and tides are normal.
What is a Neap tide?
Light, mountainous heavily cratered part of the moon.
What is the Highlands?
When we see less than half of the moon on the right hand side.
What is a waxing crescent?
The reason the Earth can only see one side of the moon.
What is synchronous rotation?
The first layer of the Sun's atmosphere with means light.
What is the photosphere?
The moon's furtherst from the Earth in its orbit.
What is apogee? (apart)
Meandering, vallylike structures believed to be old lava tubes.
What is Rilles?
When we see half of the moon on the left hand side.
What is 3rd Quarter?
What is the equinox?
The very center of the Sun.
What is the Core?
The moon is closest to the Moon in its orbit around the Earth.
What is perigee (personal space)?
The powdery loose ground rock on the surface of the moon that is similar to dust.
What is regolith?
When we see more than half of the moon on the left hand side.
What is waning gibbous?
When the Sun is overhead at its farthest distance north or south of the equator.
What is the Solstice?
The layer of the inside of the Sun where hot gas rises and cool gas sinks making a circular pattern of gasses.
What is the Convective Zone?
The name of the first 2 astronauts to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong adn Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin?