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Lunar Cycle Challenge

By Janice VanCleave

From Earth, the Moon looks like a round disk in the sky. At times this disk appears to have part of it cut away or is overlapped by something that is dark. The edge or line where the lighted part of the moon disk ends is called the terminator. In the Northern Hemisphere, the terminator […]

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