What is the actual color of the moon?

Question

You freaking people obviously haven't taken a good look at the moon. It's not "White", thanks for nothing...

Answer 1

look here:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000113.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060216.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970905.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021212.html

Answer 2

The Moon is actually a dark grey. The average albedo of the moon is 0.12; this means that during a full moon the moon reflects back about 12 percent of the light falling on it from the Sun. That's about equal to a 90% screen of black on a printing press, so it's really quite dark.

Why does it look white? Because it's usually seen in a dark sky with dark-adapted vision. That throws off our perception.

Answer 3

To us it is a white(ish) color due to the reflection of the suns rays.

On the moon however, it is a pale grey. Though I don't know why it is grey, I can only guess it is because of the chemicals in the ground. Or even over several million years the asteroids and metors that hit it eroded its original layers. Now we see it as it is.

Answer 4

Ozone is one of the several gases that make up the earth's atmosphere. It is the triatomic form of oxygen and makes up approximately one part in three million of all of the gases in the atmosphere. If all the ozone contained in the atmosphere from the ground level up to a height of 60 km could be assembled at the earth's surface, it would comprise a layer of gas only about 3 millimetres thick, and weigh some 3000 million tonnes. Ozone is toxic at high concentrations because it reacts strongly with other molecules.

Answer 5

The number of colors are more than 50,000. Of which we have named only about 300 colors.

More over colors have brightness, hue, saturation, tint contarast etc.

Thus there will be slight contrdiction of colors from person to person. The sun light is usually told as white, whereas it is saturated yellow.

The moon reflects Sun's light and its brightness is very less than the incident light.

Thus by mere seeing and judgng the color will be slightly different for different obsevers.

Answer 6

Most of the material returned by Apollo astronauts was mostly like our own igneous rocks here on earth. So like basalt, granite etc. moon rocks and associated dust are a chalky grey color.

Answer 7

The actual color of the moon is in fact chalky and grey and not white!

Answer 8

Chalky grey based on the rocks brought back by astronauts, however it appears to variate based on many factors such as; the sun's reflection, observation time, and the accuracy of the viewer's eye.

Answer 9

I would say it is white and grey, but thats based on what i see at night, and alot of that color is due to it being lighted by the sun.

Answer 10

Grey

Answer 11

White. The only reason it sometimes looks yellow or orange is simiply because of the way the sun is lighting up the surface.