The phase of the Moon is the same no matter where you are on Earth. However the Moon’s appearance “flips” between Northern and Southern hemispheres (i.e., a waning crescent is on the Moon’s left side in the north but on the right in the south).

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5 Things People See in the Moon

The Moon keeps one side facing Earth because its rotation period is the same as its orbital period. The Earth-facing side, the near side, is splotched with dark spots called maria (Latin for “seas”), which are the remnants of giant volcanic eruptions that happened early in the Moon’s history. There