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The Moon on Sunday, March 31, 1957: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.1% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

New Moon at

09:19UTC

Moon phase on March 31, 1957New Moon

Sunday 31 March 1957398,293 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 31, 1957, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.8 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.8 dMoon age
398,293 km247,487 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (12°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 31, 1957 is on Sunday, April 14, 1957 at 12:09 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 31, 1957 at 09:19 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 23, 195705:05
New Moon (this day)Sunday, March 31, 195709:19
First Quarter (after)Sunday, April 7, 195720:33

The Moon around March 31

More about this date

Sunday, March 31, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 31, 1957 to the new moon of April 29, 1957, a cycle of 29.61 days.