Depends on the definition. Ignoring the terrain, each point gets slightly more illumination than 50% of the time because of the Sun’s non-zero size.
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LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoBecause the dark side of the moon is in fact not dark most of the time.
Exactly half of the time right?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ironically, the dark side of the moon is lit a bit more than the light side. Dark side is gonna be almost exactly half of the time, light side is a bit less because it’s the side facing the sun during lunar eclipses.
Same argument for the dark side of the moon getting more light than the earth because of solar eclipses (if we’re comparing % light coverage, not total photons).