Moon Research Paper

One of my most favorite things to do is to watch the moon as it changes phases every so often. Anytime a full moon is supposed to happen, I always like to try and get the best picture of it that I possibly can. The moon has eight different phases. The new moon phase in which the moon's unlit side faces the Earth and is not visible unless a solar eclipse occurs. The waxing crescent phase where the moon seems to be less than one-half lit by direct sunlight. The portion of the moon being lit is increasing. The first quarter phase when one-half of the moon looks as if it’s lit up by direct sunlight. The waxing gibbous phase when the moon seems to be more than one-half but not completely lit by direct sunlight. The full moon phase when the moon's …show more content…
The portion of the moon being lit is decreasing. The last quarter phase when one-half of the moon looks like it’s lit by the direct sunlight. The waning crescent phase is when the moon seems to be somewhat but less than one-half lit by direct sunlight. A few days after the waning crescent phase takes place, there is a new moon, which then starts the cycle over again. There’s approximately a twenty-nine and a half day period for the moon phases. A while ago when I was in middle school I had briefly learned about the Apollo missions but we didn’t go in depth with them. After reading about the majority of them, I learned more interesting information that really caught my attention. After each Apollo mission, astronauts and other crew from NASA had to continuously improve their equipment and instruments. Not to mention their space crafts also needed improvements made to them. Each time they ran a mission, they had set specific goals they wanted to achieve while traveling to the moon. With every mission, the astronauts had particular landing sites where they wanted to land but not always where they able to make the proper