Moon and Moon phases

General facts on Moon and its relationship with the Earth

Moon (lat. Luna) is the Earth’s closest celestial body. Moon revolves around the Earth in elliptic orbit and it takes 27,3 days to do one revolution around Earth (this is called sidereal rotation period). However, as the Earth revolves around the Sun, Moon takes 29,5 days to return to the same spot (synodic rotation period), if we look at his rotation from the aspect Earth-Moon-Sun.

It is widely known today that the tides occur because of gravitational forces, which are located between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun at their relative movement through space. The Moon revolves around the Earth, and because of its attraction of the Earth, attractive force appears between them influencing the Earth. All but huge masses of water on the Earth (71% of Earth’s surface is covered with water), is not flexible enough…