The claim: Moon visible in the daytime proves Earth is flat

A Jan. 3 Instagram video shows what appears to be a cellphone video panning between the sun and moon in a cloudless sky in the daytime.

"The sun doesn't illuminate the moon. The moon is its own light. They are both above our level plane," the narrator claims. "(The moon) is supposed to be on the other side of the Earth right now where it's dark, but as you can see it's out here with the sun."

The video then transitions to multiple diagrams that attempt to show how the sun circles south of the equator in January and north of it in June, all below text that asserts "Earth is not a spinning ball."

The video's caption reads, "Let's get back to COMMON SENSE in 2023. WAKE UP!"

The video was liked more than 1,600 times in a week.

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Our rating: False

The Earth is not flat, it's spherical, as proven by photos from space and an array of observations and calculations that can be done from Earth. Planetary scientists say the visibility of the moon and sun during the daytime, doesn't prove a flat Earth – it is in fact a reflection of the motion of the sun, moon and Earth in space, along with the Earth's rotation. The moon also does not emit its own light.

Moon visibility during the day consistent with spherical Earth

There is an abundance of evidence that Earth is spherical, including photographs of the planet taken from space.

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