• Question: Why can you sometimes see the moon during the day?

    Asked by anon-244291 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 16 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      The Moon orbits the Earth every 27 and a half days, and the earth rotates once every 24 hours (give or take a few minutes). At some points in the Moon’s orbit of Earth, it is on the side that is closer to the Sun, which means that we’ll see it when our part of the Earth is facing the sun- better known as during the day!

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      I always like when this happens. I remember asking my dad the exact same question as it looks so strange to see the moon during the day!

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