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  • because more of the moon's surfaces is positioned to reflect light.
  • It's because we can see the sun's reflection on all of the moon and not just part of it.
  • 1. The light from the sun (that's what lights it up) is bouncing directly at your eyes, not at an angle. Example: Stand facing a wall. Have somebody shine a flashlight on the wall at an angle. Compare that to how bright the spot of light looks if you hold the flashlight. More light is going to bounce off the wall in the second case. 2. There's more surface lit up, so there's more light to see. Example: Draw a circle on the wall. Shine one flashlight on it. Compare that to the brightness if you shine several flashlights on it.
  • Because there is more 'moon' reflecting the sun's light back to the earth.
  • When we see a full moon, it is because the Earth is not blocking any sunlight from reaching the Moon. Also, the Moon can be is a very good position at that point in time, to reflect optimal sunlight towards us, and it will seem very large to us. If this interests you, I suggest waiting for a full Moon to set, it will be extraordinarily huge at this point, when it is descending towards the horizon. Truly exhilarating.
  • It's all geometry. Consider: The Earth is a sphere (duh)so the sun does not illuminate the whole thing at once. It only hits the part facing it. The moon? Also a sphere (gasp! And the plot thickens...). So the sun can only illuminate half of it at once, because the dark side of the moon (as the poetically inclined call it) is facing away from the sun. And because the moon orbits the Earth (I know, shocking) we see a different angle of the moon every time that sucker moves. For example, when the moon is a crescent moon it's because it's position relative to the Earth only allows us to see the illuminated portion at an angle.
  • Nothing is blocking it, so you get the full amount of light.
  • probably cause its full

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