My Art of Astronomy: Why Can We See a Face on the Moon? (Part 14)

At full moon, when the Moon is round, you can see a face on it with two eyes, a nose and a mouth.

Through a telescope the Moon looks like in the below picture. It has dark and light places. If you look at that photograph from far away, the dark spots begin to look like eyes, a nose and a mouth.

^{Full moon on 22 December, 1999. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day}

The dark spots on the Moon are called seas, but they are not real seas. They have no water.