What makes the moon glow?

Answer 1

Everything reflects light, that is how you can see it. The light goes from the sun, and bounces off the object, and then goes into your eyes. Because everything reflects light it gives the impression of "giving off" light, like the sun or a light bulb does. The whiter the object is (because white reflects the most light, which is also why white clothes are cool) the more of the spectrum it reflects, so the brighter it is. If you put a piece of paper next to something when you're in the sun you can notice it getting brighter.

Because the moon is white(ish) it reflects quite a lot of the Sun's light, which is why we can see it so clearly. If it was red or blue then it would be much harder to see, and moonlight would be much dimmer. The phases of the moon are caused by the Earth's shadow getting in the way of the sunlight. When the sun is directly behind the earth it's a new moon, when it is half hidden it's a half moon etc.

Light reflection in space isn't just limited to the moon. If you can go somewhere where you can see the stars (not anywhere with streetlights) then if you look for long enough you will see something that appears to be a star, but it moves quite fast across the sky. That is one of Earth's other satelites - the ones we've put up there for TV and things. These reflect light in much the same way as the moon does, although of course it's to a much lesser degree.

Answer 2

What Makes The Moon Glow

Answer 3

Reflected light. Primarily from the sun, but also from the Earth when the moon is crescent the Earth appears gibbous (almost full) from the pov of someone who would be standing on the moon. This is called Earthshine and it allows us to see the nighttime part of the moon "glow" even though it is in darkness until later in its cycle.

The Earth is both larger and more reflective of the sunlight that falls upon it. So when we see earthshine we are seeing sunlight that reflects off the earth shining upon the moon and then reflected back at us. When you consider how promenent the dark part of the moon can be during crescent phase, you can readily appreciate just how bright the Earth must appear in the moon's sky.

Answer 4

It reflects the light from the sun. The sun is shining on it and the moons surface reflects it like a mirror to us. The mood goes thru the phases (full, quarter, crescent, etc) by the angle of the sun to the moon, just like on earth half is day and half is night (well to put it simply anyway) and what we see "glowing" from the moon is the day part of the moon.

Answer 5

The moon obviously emits no light. What we see on earth is the reflection of sunlight. The best way to think about it is if you have ever seen a picture of the earth from outer space you have undoubtedly seen the portion of the earth that is lit by the sun. Thats what we see of the moon here on earth, the portion of the moon lit by the sun which is why, during different times of the month, more of the moon is visible.

Answer 6

The moon does not glow. It is the reflection of the sun off its surface.

Answer 7

i think the sun shines on the moons side at night which makes it glow

Answer 8

The moon is a giant orbital mirror reflecting the sun back at us.

Answer 9

The moon doesn't glow. Only very hot objects glow.
You can see it, because it is illuminated by the sun.
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Answer 10

The sun's reflection