Mark and Jacob live in opposite hemispheres. Mark lives in Santiago, Chile, which is in the Southern hemisphere. Jacob lives in Boston, Massachusetts, which is in the northern hemisphere. They both gazed at the Moon on the same evening. Mark noticed there was a full Moon when he looked up at the sky from his location (the southern hemisphere). What do you predict Jacob saw when he looked up in the sky from his location (the Northern Hemisphere) ?

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Casey Gallegos

2 March, 07:56

Mark and Jacob live in opposite hemispheres. Mark lives in Santiago, Chile, which is in the Southern hemisphere. Jacob lives in Boston, Massachusetts, which is in the northern hemisphere. They both gazed at the Moon on the same evening. Mark noticed there was a full Moon when he looked up at the sky from his location (the southern hemisphere). What do you predict Jacob saw when he looked up in the sky from his location (the Northern Hemisphere) ?

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Manuel Olsen · Answer 1

your time zone also makes a small difference in how you view the moon's phase. That's because - as Earth turns under the sky, and the moon rises for successive time zones - the moon is continually waxing or waning.

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they will see it differently