He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain.

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The moon is full and the clouds scudding across its surface cast blue shadows on the snow.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia

The electricity had failed, as it often did, and the full moon climbing the sky lit the scene indirectly, reflecting off the whitewashed walls, throwing dim shadows around the machinery strewn about, plows and planters, drags, harrows.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

The best time to gaze at the Moon through a telescope is when it is in a phase that is less than full, when the shadows along the terminator reveal in greatest detail the depression of craters.

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