Moon Knowledge

What are the names of Jupiter's 4 largest Moons (Galileo Moons)

• Io, Europa, Celeste, Sheron

• Io, Heres, Ganymede, Callisto

• Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

• Io, Heres, Celeste, Sheron

A lunar month is what?

• 30 days

• 29 days 12 hrs 44 minutes

• 30 days 15 hrs 4 minutes

• 29 days

A satellite (in this case a moon) which constrains the borders of a planetary ring through gravitational force

• An Orphan Moon/Satellite

• A Roving Moon

• Magnetic Moon/Satellite

• Shepard Moon/Satellite

When the moon is more than half full, less than completely full (The lighted part)

• strand

• crescent

• void

• gibbous

"Dim Light", The lighter part of a shadow found on the shadow's edge

• phase

• crescent

• penumbra

• gibbous

The apparent change in the shape of the Moon, Mercury, and Venus due to how much of the sunlit side is facing earth is called:

• Phases

• That word....

• Retrograde

• Reversion

Th darkest part of the shadow is called:

• Penumbra

• Gibbous

• Crescent

• Umbra

When the moon is less than half full, more than a new moon (The lighted part)

• Umbra

• Gibbous

• Penumbra

• Crescent