Question

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Explain how the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun vary during a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse.

Answer 1

The moon covers the sun, during this the earth on which it happpens, the earth is shadowing, untill it is over.

Answer 2

When the Moon passes between Sun and Earth, the lunar shadow is seen as a solar eclipse on Earth. When Earth passes directly between Sun and Moon, its shadow creates a lunar eclipse. ... But lunar eclipses do not occur every month because the Moon's orbit is tilted five degrees from Earth's orbit around the Sun.