I'll never forget this old reddit thread where a guy was recounting an occurrence in his elementary school class where his teacher was saying that the sun comes out in the daytime and the moon at night. Several students spoke up and said that the moon was visible during the day also. The teacher was adamant and insisted that you can only see the moon at night. Then a kid who was seated near a window called out "Yo teach, there go the moon right there."
It's not that it never receives light, it's just that the moon's rotation has slowed down to match its orbital period, so we'll never see it FROM EARTH.
If we actually went outside of the Moon's orbital range and looked back, we could see both sides given enough time.
I'll never forget this old reddit thread where a guy was recounting an occurrence in his elementary school class where his teacher was saying that the sun comes out in the daytime and the moon at night. Several students spoke up and said that the moon was visible during the day also. The teacher was adamant and insisted that you can only see the moon at night. Then a kid who was seated near a window called out "Yo teach, there go the moon right there."
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It's not that it never receives light, it's just that the moon's rotation has slowed down to match its orbital period, so we'll never see it FROM EARTH.
If we actually went outside of the Moon's orbital range and looked back, we could see both sides given enough time.
They actually call a moon visible during the day a "children's moon", because it's the only moon children usually get to see.