I know that this is an old picture now, as it was taken on the 19th of March, but this is an image of the Supermoon that ocurred that night. I was looking at tonights moon (a waxing gibbous moon) and it struck me how patchy my knowledge of lunar geography actually is, as well as the evident beauty of the moon itself. Did you know that we never see the other side of the moon? The other side is never seen because the moon rotates slowing in comparison to the Earth, as it rotates once on its axis every 28 days, which is the same length of time it takes to orbit the Earth, meaning that the one side of the moon remains on view to the Earth at all times.
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