The patterns are caused by craters and plains on the moon's surface. Imagine that the moon is high up in the sky and you are standing Australia looking at it. You will be facing north. In this sense, it is travelling from east to west and from right to left. A person in Japan is also looking at the moon.
Many people say that it is impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.
Take a piece of paper and see how many times you can fold it in half. It is unlikely that you can do it more than seven times. However the folds do not all need to be parallel. It is not strictly true that seven times is the absolute folding limit. Once, at a country primary school on the tennis court, some of my teacher education students and the children managed to fold paper from a toilet roll in half nine times.