Can I see Earth's Moon from Mars?
Others have answered but I will try to make a simpler answer:Yes. Martians would have a better view of the Earth than us earthlings have of Mars, for several reasonsThe distance for each viewer, martian or earthling is obviously the same but,..The Earth is bigger and being closer to the sun brighter. and with it’s clouds more reflective. From Earth Mars look bright even to the unaided eye. Mars was obvious to all ancient human cultures. The Earth would be even more noticeable from MarsMars has a thinner atmosphere than does Earth. Martians standing on the surface are almost in space. The thin near vacuum can be very transparent. While on Earth even in the best conditions on a clear night we must look though many miles of very thick air. Martians simply have a better view of spaceHowever the glare from the bright Earth would make the Moon very hard to see. But in a small portable telescope the Earth and Moon would be easy to see as a small disk. At some times of the Martian year you would be able to see continents and oceans of earth in a small telescope But I doubt you would be able to see signs of any life on Earth without observatory sized equipment that will likely NEVER be built on Mars (being better built and left in space.)Earth would appear as a bright “star”, one of the brightest ones. But from the surface of Mars at night there would be so many more stars than are ever visible from Earth that I wonder of the bright Earth would stand out from the 10 or 12 thousand other stars? But it would not have to stand out, everyone on Mars would learn where to look.
Can we see the earth from the moon?
The view totally depends on which side of moon are you on !!From the side that constantly faces earth.. you will see something like this..FROM the other side though.. you will everything but earth. Quite literally.
How can you see the moon on both sides of the earth, at the same time?
i was looking at my new globe it has the moon in the right angle, and i cant see how anyone on the other side of the planet can see the moon at the same time as us. i asked friends in India to send me pictures and it looked the same as what i was looking at. HOW CAN THIS BE. i asked this in the NASA chat room and was banned.i just want to here a good answer. besides my daughters one of the earth must be flat.which sounds nuts but i cant see any other reason it can be done. so please help.
Can you see sunset of the Earth from the Moon?
Just watch the Moon each night from your backyard, noticing the movement of the terminator (the moving boundary between light and dark, not Arnold) as its phase changes from crescent to first quarter to gibbous to full. Anyone standing on the surface of the moon would see the sun gradually rise as the terminator passes them and the area goes from dark to light. As phases continue past full, and you see the moon go from full to waning gibbous to third quarter and waning crescent, anyone on the Moon's surface at the terminator would see the sun setting. As the Moon orbits Earth, it always keeps the same side facing us. This, combined with the fact that it takes 29 1/2 days to complete one cycle of phases, means that anyone on the Moon's surface would see 29 1/2 days go by between consecutive sunrises or sunsets.Now imagine yourself on the Moon's surface exactly in the center of its disk as seen from Earth. Since the same side of the Moon always faces us, you would see the Earth directly overhead at all times. There would be no Earth rise or Earth set. If you were at another point on the hemisphere of the Moon facing Earth, the Earth would be somewhere other than overhead but would still not move across the sky. If you were on the side opposite Earth you would never see it, just as we never see the far side of the Moon from Earth. One interesting exception to the above description would be for anyone exactly on the limb (edge of the Moon's disk as seen from Earth). The Moon "wobbles" or "nutate" over time in its orbit, so we can actually see slightly more than 50% of its surface over time. That mean someone at the limb could see the Earth just at the horizon, occasionally rising and setting briefly.
Can we see earthlight from the moon?
Apollo Astronauts were able to see the Earth from the Moon, which means that they were able to see the sunlight reflected from the Earth reaching the moon. The Earth of course does not give off it’s own light.Technically Earthshine is the light we see in the dark potion of the crescent moon - this is sunlight reflected from the Earth onto the surface of the Moon, and then from the Moon back to Earth as that soft light.Although I think that the Apollo landings were all on the sunlit section of the moon, I would image that if an Astronaut was on the unlit area of the moon, and were able to withstand the cold, then they would be able to see the surface around them illuminated under the gentle light from the Earth.
If you were on the moon, can you see Earth go through phases?
Yes. Consider that both the moon and Earth are always half-illuminated by the Sun. Phases depend only on where we're viewing the other object from. Phases of the Earth viewed from the Moon are opposite the phases of the moon we see from Earth. During the time we see a full Moon, Moon residents would see a new Earth. http://img2.pict.com/8f/0a/a2/3583253/0/... Here's an actual photo from Apollo 8 which shows the Earth only partially lit. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
What does the Earth look like from the Moon?
The Earth does look like this from the Moon. On Christmas Eve exactly 59 years ago, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8, the first manned lunar mission, entered lunar orbit. Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders held a live broadcast from lunar orbit where they showed pictures of the Earth and the Moon as seen from the spacecraft.Above, the Earth from the Moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. Credit: NASACommander Jim Lovell said the following:"The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth."They ended The broadcast ended with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis..
How many sides of the moon do we see from earth? explain?
We can see only 50% of the surface area of the moon at one time. Because of libration and optical parallax effects, we can observe 59% of the moon's surface area over time. I think most libration (wobble) of the moon is due to both the Earth and the moon rotating around a common center of mass called a barycenter. The Earth - Moon system's barycenter is deep under the surface of the Earth. Because the moon is more or less tidally locked with the Earth, we always see almost the same hemisphere of the moon from the Earth
Why can you see craters on the Moon but you can’t see them on Earth from the Moon?
A few reasons.First of all, there are craters on Earth too.But:There are relatively less on Earth (certainly if you consider that Earth has a bigger mass and thus a stronger gravity) partly because of our atmosphere. Smaller meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere, and bigger ones partly burn up or explode into smaller bits.Earth has a soil that is moving. We have flora (forests) that will cover craters in hundreds or thousands of years; let alone after millions of years. Some of the craters on the Moon are billions of years old, see also the next point.Earth has plate tectonics. The plates that make up the Earth’s crust are moving. Not only does this create mountain ranges (such as the Alps or the Himalayas) where plates crash into each other. Also, plates can sometimes completely disappear under another plate. After 100’s of millions or billions of years, a crater will have completely disappeared.Because we have an atmosphere (and liquid water) we also have weather. Rain, wind, but also glaciers and rivers, will erode surfaces over 1000’s or millions of years, removing features including any craters.And of course, Earth is 2/3 covered with water, so any meteorite crashing there won’t make a crater.Still, there are some big craters on Earth, such as the Barringer crater, with a famously big meteorite.And even bigger, scientists believe that the meteor that created the Chicxulub crater (Yucatan peninsula, Mexico) may be the one that was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia Meteor Crater - Wikipedia (Barringer crater)