Diamond Member SpaceMan 0 Posted December 2, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted December 2, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Quebec, Canada. In our entire solar system, the only object that shines with its own light is the Sun. That light always beams onto Earth and the Moon from the direction of the Sun, illuminating half of our planet in its orbit and reflecting off the surface of the Moon to create This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Sometimes the entire face of the Moon glows brightly. Other times we see only a thin crescent of light. Sometimes the Moon seems to disappear. These shifts are called Moon phases. The waxing gibbous phase comes just before the full moon. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Image credit: NASA This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/291155-nasa-waxing-gibbous-moon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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