The Dark Side of the Moon Quiz- Check Up

In what year did the Apollo 8 mission, astronauts from the United States became the first humans to travel all the way around the Moon in a spacecraft.

• 1868

• 1896

• 1968

• 1986

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When they were flying by the half of the Moon that was facing the sun, they could see the Moon...?

• Well

• Not so much

• Completely Dark

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When they were flying by the half of the Moon that was facing away from the sun, they could see...?

• Only half

• Everything

• Nothing at all

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How can one side of the Moon be so bright and the other so dark?

• The moonlight you see from Earth is actually light from the sun.

• The moonlight you see from Mars is actually light from the sun.

• The moonlight you see from Venus is actually light from the sun.

• The moonlight you see from Neptune is actually light from the sun.

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Light from the sun travels in a straight line.

• False

• True

• Depends

• There is no light from the sun

The side of the Moon that faces the sun is very....

• Light and Dark

• Dark

• Bright

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The side of the Moon that faces away from the sun...

• ...is in almost complete outer space

• ...is in almost complete darkness

• ...is in almost complete brightness

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Half of the Moon is always illuminated by the sun.

• Depends

• False

• True

• Never

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