Believe implies religion. I simply do not know for sure. Let me see a 24/7 for about a week of videos of Earth from a satellite. Not CGI, but a real feed. I still don’t see how the Moon is at times dark on part of it, and light at the same time. I mean, in broad daylight, and both bodies are seen with the naked eye. What is blocking the light? Earth is not between the Moon and Earth at that point.
OMFG where do these idiots come from? Is there a special on DU trolls this week? The Earth-Moon system revolves around the sun. There is nothing blocking the light from reaching the Moon, it’s a function of the direction from the Moon to the Sun. The Moon is spherical and “blocks” the light itself.
Mods, can we do something about the trolls, please?
Live feed from ISS is available all over the interwebz ... youtube ... NASA TV .... Look it up. Or ... you can look at GOES imagery: fresh images taken every few minutes from Geostationary Orbit. "weather.gov" and "windy.com" both provide good access to that. If you don't trust them ... You might be interested to know that GOES imagery downlink is NOT encrypted. Instructions exist on the internet on how to build your own radio receiver to catch the downlink and convert it to images on your own computer.
I still don’t see how the Moon is at times dark on part of it, and light at the same time.
1) Moon is tidally locked to Earth. This means that the same side (with a little wobble) always faces Earth. Thus, there is a "far side" and a "near side".
2) Moon is tidally locked to Earth. This means that its rotational period on its axis is the same as its orbital period around Earth. Since it is rotating, it also has "day" and "night". Therefore, at times the Earth facing side is also fully sunlit. This, we call a "Full Moon". At other times, the Earth facing side is turned away from the Sun. This, we call a "New Moon". In between these two extremes, we have crescent moons, half-moons, and gibbous moons ... where we see part of the sunlit side, and part of the unlit side.
3) Occasionally, Earth's shadow passes in over the Earth facing side of the Moon ... this we call a lunar eclipse, and it can only happen during a Full Mmoon.
4) Occasionally, the Moon will pass between Earth and Sun. This we call a solar eclipse, and it can only happen during a New Moon.