Our Moon!

1)Every Planet in our Solar System has it's moon except Mercury and Venus...All have their proper names such as Phobos(Mars),Titan(Jupiter),Miranda(Uranus) etc.Then why is it that our moon's name is 'The Moon'.Actually it is Luna(originated from Latin)...That is why a moon eclipse is known as Lunar Eclipse...

2).Everyone knows that Earth revolve the Sun and Moon revolve around the Earth.We are able to see all the sides of sun and hopefully if we build some hi-tech spaceship that can bear sun's temperature and other factors,we would be able to see all side of Earth too.But this is not applicable with Earth and Moon(Luna)...We being on Earth can only see one side of Moon.This is due to Moon's orbital Resonance.Amazing huh???

3).If we observe moon for a month,we find that it keeps on changing it's shape.This is because we see only the bright side of the moon and note that Moon does not emit it's own light.It just reflects the light coming from the Sun.As the Moon revolves around the Earth we only see the brighter side normal(at right angle)to the Sun as shown in the figure.this is why it takes half a month(15 days) to turn a new moon to a full moon and vice versa...

4).Moon has it's gravitational influence on Earth too.This is why we see High and Low tides on Earth.Their is a Neap Tides on each day except new moon and full moon day.The tide type at new moon and full moon is known as Spring Tide.

After few of so many Amazing facts about moon i am pretty sure you would be a big fan of our moon.