The Fascinating Truth About the Moon's Monthly Orbit Around the Earth

[Howers]

I had no idea it took a month for the moon to orbit the earth. I thought it happened daily, and that's what gave us night. How do we get night?

 

[chroot]

The Earth rotates in 24 hours. (Actually, a little less, but that's unimportant here.) One side of the Earth is exposed to sunlight at any given time; the other side is in darkness. Thus, we have night and day.

The Moon revolves around the Earth once every 28 days, and is unrelated to the Earth's day/night cycle. If it revolved around the Earth once per day, you'd see the Moon's phase go from full to new and back to full every single day.

- Warren

 

[neutrino]

One more thing: You can see the Moon during daytime.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Thread title corrected.