Now that we've figured out why we see the moon during the day, we're trying to figure out why the moon appears different shapes. We built some models both in our notebooks and physically together, too. After some intense building of our models, we came to consensus on why the moon appears different shapes!
We naturally wanted to know how long it takes the moon to orbit the Earth (knowing this orbit and our perspective from Earth causes us to see the moon differently). So with some calendars of various moon phases, we figured out this takes roughly 29 days to go from New Moon to New Moon!
We naturally wanted to know how long it takes the moon to orbit the Earth (knowing this orbit and our perspective from Earth causes us to see the moon differently). So with some calendars of various moon phases, we figured out this takes roughly 29 days to go from New Moon to New Moon!
Next steps...figure out all our questions that relate to other stars besides the Sun!