Every night the moon shows us the same face, however, from earth we do not see it the same, since it presents us with a different part that changes week by week, the famous moon phases governed by the lunar calendar.
He lunar calendar marks the cycle that the celestial body closest to our planet carries out around its orbit, a period that lasts less than a month and is characterized by its phases: full moon, new moon, waxing moon or waning moon.
Due to the inclination and shape of its orbit, the natural satellite that surrounds our planet allows us to see different angles throughout the month.
The phases of the moon for the week, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its acronym in English).
will be next Wednesday, November 5 when the natural satellite surrounding the earth reaches the full moon. This means that the star will be opposite the sun in its orbit around the Earth and its visible side will be completely illuminated.
In different civilizations, it is used to mark the passage of time.
For the following week, during the Wednesday, November 12the moon will reach its last quarterthat is, it appears to be half illuminated from the Earth’s perspective, but in reality only half of the moon, a quarter, is being seen.
Also known as the last quarter moon, in this phase the celestial body rises around midnight and sets around noon.
At the beginning of this week, the moon will be 383348 kilometers from the earth, by the end of the week the distance will be 356830 kilometers, this because its orbit is not a perfect circle.
Of course there is weather on the moon, however, the definition of “weather” for the natural satellite that revolves around the Earth is very different from what we have.
According to NASA, snow does not fall on the moon, thunder never sounds, nor clouds form in the sky.
The lunar climate is dominated by temperature changes of hundreds of degrees, incoming space rocks of all sizes and particles, as well as energy traveling from the sun and beyond.
Scorching heat and bone-chilling cold are common on the moon, making temperature changes rapid and dramatic.
This is because the moon does not have an atmosphere like Earth’s. Instead it has a barely visible layer of gas around the Moon called the exosphere.
The lunar exosphere is too small to trap or diffuse the Sun’s energy, so the differences between the sunlit and shadowed areas of the Moon are extreme.
Temperatures near the Moon’s equator can rise to 121 degrees Celsius during the day and then plummet after dark to -133 degrees Celsius.
In deep craters near the moon’s poles, permanent shadows keep the surface even colder; NASA has recorded temperatures below -246 degrees Celsius.
