earth and moon wallpaper

this application is a live wallpaper or screensaver of earth and moon wallpaper set the app as live wallpaper to decorate your phone downloads earth and moon wallpaper from our store page. we have the best collection of earth and moon wallpaper. you can also download other live wallpaper in case you don’t find this lwp suitable for you, we had a vast lwp collection. attentive observers on earth might notice that the moon essentially keeps the same side facing our planet as it passes through its orbit.

this may lead to the question, does the moon rotate? the answer is yes, though it may seem contrary to what our eyes observe. free live earth wallpaper. the moon orbits the earth once every 27.322 days. it also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. as a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. scientists call this sychronous rotation. the side of the moon that perpetually faces earth is known as the near side.

the opposite or "back" side is the far side. sometimes the far side is called the dark side of the moon, but this is inaccurate. when the moon is between the earth and the sun, during the new moon phase, the back side of the moon is bathed in daylight. the orbit and the rotation aren't perfectly matched, however. free live earth wallpaper. the moon travels around the earth in an elliptical orbit, a slightly stretched-out circle. when the moon is closest to earth, its rotation is slower than its journey through space, allowing observers to see an additional 8 degrees on the eastern side. when the moon is farthest, the rotation is faster, so an additional 8 degrees are visible on the western side. if you could journey around to the far side of the moon as the apollo 8 astronauts once did, you would see a very different surface from the one you are accostomed to viewing. free live earth wallpaper. free live earth wallpaper. while the near side of the moon is smoothed by maria large dark plains created by solidified lava flows and light lunar highlands, the far side is heavily cratered.