It's ALL about the geometry of the Sun, Earth and Moon.. The Far side of the Moon gets just as much sun light as the Near side of the Moon. The Moon is not always at perigee when a full Moon occurs or at apogee gee when a new Moon occurs. The plane of the moon's orbit is tilted at 5.12 degree angle to the Plane of Earth's orbit . that is WHY we don't have solar and lunar eclipses every month. And the average distance of the sun from the Earth is 93 million miles, not 92 million miles..
Your facts are uncoordinated.
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Morningfox say: The moon is in one part of the sky, near the horizon. The sun is in the other opposite part of the sky, also near the horizon. That's how you get a near full moon while the sun is in the sky.
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DEBS say: the moon is not directly between the Earth and the Sun. It is were there would be an eclipse. As such, there is still light shinning off of it which gets reflected to Earth for us to see.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: So... try this. In your living room, you probably have a lamp in a corner. Turn it on.
In the opposite corner, place a basketball so the lamp's light is on it.
Now, stand in the middle of the room, so that your shadow *almost* touches the basketball. Now, just look at the basketball.
That's how a full moon works - If you're face is in the dark (that is, the shadow of your own head), and you're looking at a fully-lit basketball. Well, when the moon is *furthest* from the sun, the same effect happens... those on the night-side of Earth see the fully-lit moon.
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