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April 07, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
The moon is between Earth and the Sun, invisible from Earth.
Day 0.0 of the lunar cycle
Humans have tracked the moon for millennia. The word "month" comes from "moon" - our earliest calendars were lunar. Farmers plant by the moon, sailors navigate by it, and poets have written countless verses to its silver light.
The moon always shows us the same face - it's tidally locked to Earth. The "dark side" isn't actually dark; it gets just as much sunlight, we just never see it from here.
The moon is approximately 384,400 km away.
Light from the moon reaches us in about 1.3 seconds.
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