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Wouldn't it be smarter to build on the far side of the moon? Then you don't need to worry about the Earth obscuring the sun at all, right? Or were you referring
by joemi 4y ago
Wouldn't it be smarter to build on the far side of the moon? Then you don't need to worry about the Earth obscuring the sun at all, right? Or were you referring to some other phenomena?
- outworlder 4y agoYou still get the Moon obscuring itself. The Earth is not eclipsing the Sun most of the time.
- 867-5309 4y agothe moon is tidally locked to the Earth, i.e. it does not rotate about an axis, and takes ~27 days to orbit. therefore around half of those days are in darkness at any given point on its surface, hence the lunar phases
- joemi 4y agoAh yeah, makes sense... I confused myself.