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  • 01-03-2020
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How much of the total surface of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun when it is at crescent phase
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  • 01-03-2020

Nominally 50% of the moon's surface is illuminated at any time, but we only SEE parts of that half.

(It's just like ... 50% of the Earth's surface is illuminated at night, but you're not IN that half.)

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