[Revelation]

in a word, yes. But very small ones. They are called eclipses.

Anyway, in response to "mmh... take earth: the highest mountain is 8km tall. I doubt you'll see any bump on such a scale", I was more or less referring to the moon (assuming it was a moon) which would be significantly small compared to the planet, thus would be close enough to see mountain ranges, and more so, craters due to its apparent lack of atmosphere.

[Setekh]

Hey, Revelation. Welcome to HLP, bro! Good to see another Aussie around.



Indeed about the shadows. Really depends on the size of the sun, distance of the planet from the sun, distance of the moon from both, and fitting those altogether, in our situation the moon can cast shadows on the Earth. Penumbra and umbra they're called, one is complete darkness and the other is partial, but I forget which is which.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Revelation
in a word, yes. But very small ones. They are called eclipses.

Anyway, in response to "mmh... take earth: the highest mountain is 8km tall. I doubt you'll see any bump on such a scale", I was more or less referring to the moon (assuming it was a moon) which would be significantly small compared to the planet, thus would be close enough to see mountain ranges, and more so, craters due to its apparent lack of atmosphere.

As I said in the first post, these are scaled down from the original images. In the 2048x2048 moon image there are crater shadows at the day/night area that make the planet look much more 3d.