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When the moon comes in between the earth which moon becomes invisible from earth.
and the sun, then the sunlight reflected by the This is called as a New Moon Day or Days. On
moon doesn't reach the earth, as a result of Day 14 or after 14 days earth is between sun

Light reflection while full moon day and new moon day

and the moon, as a result of which the light moon.
reflected by the moon reaches on the However, after the full moon day. The

earth. phenomenon just reverts instead of increasing
Side of the earth is facing day side of moon
thus a complete spherical moon becomes
visible to us this is called as a full moon day.

Just after a new moon day, moon appears to
become visible in the form of an ascent
depicted in the figure, this crescent goes on
increasing uptel full moon day. This
phenomenon of gradual increment of size of

crescent of the moon is called as waxing of the

Phases of the moon

Aryabhatta, Bhaskara I and II, Rohini, IRS (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) are some of the artificial satellites
launched by India in space.

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