why the moon looks orange??

Answer 1

watch the disney movie The Kid. it tells you in the credits :P.

Answer 2

The Moon isn't actually orange, or made of green cheese for that matter, but sometimes it can look so. The reason is the Earth, or rather the Earth's atmosphere. Imagine you were stood on the Moon looking towards the Sun. Obviously, I don't advise that you normally look directly at the Sun, but this is our imagination so go with it.

At full moon, the Moon is almost on the opposite site of the Earth to the Sun although not quite all lined up. That means that to get to the Moon, light from the Sun has to skim through our atmosphere. It has to go through a lot of atmosphere and, for the same reason that sunsets look reddy-orange, the light which gets to the Moon is slightly orange tinged; some of the blue part of the spectrum has been filtered out by Earth's atmosphere. [Edit 20/8/2005] The light has to come back, through a lot of atmosphere, to your eye. It is this last trip which will do the rest of the reddening. That way, the amount of reddening will depend on your local pollution levels - different countries will see different colours. The Moon should also get less red as it gets higher above the horizon as there is less atmosphere for the light to travel through.

Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Thursday 18th Aug 2005 (14:01 UTC

Answer 3

Hmmm... I answered this question before... I'll just paste my previous answer. Enjoy!!!

When the moon is low in the horizon, the light has to travel through a thicker layer of atmosphere. Imagine that light travels through a glass pane. It would travel through a thicker layer of glass if it were to enter at an angle than head-on.

This thicker layer of the atmosphere will dispere the light reflected off the moon (sunlight). So, the same effect that makes the sun red at sunrise and sunset causes the moon to glow with a yellowish light at the same point.

The effect is enhanced by any large concentration of particles in the air, like dust, volcanic ash, and city air pollution. The enhancement will cause the moon to glow bright orange.

Answer 4

The moon is very almost an entire moon this night. The moon seems plenty plenty extra beneficial than any planet. Planets purely appear as if stars interior the sky, mutually as the moon is hundreds of cases as vivid. The moon can seem a gaggle of distinctive hues watching the ambience and the place you're viewing the moon from. it rather is blue, pink, orange, each each now and then even a yellowish coloration. while the moon is nearer to the horizon, it seems bigger and frequently has extra of a pink tint.

Answer 5

When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight has to pass through a lot of air. By the time the moonlight reaches our eyes, all of the colors except orange or red have been scattered away. So we see the moon as orange. When the moon is directly overhead, it has to pass through less air. The colors don't have enough bits of air to scatter away light. So we see the moon as white.

Answer 6

Pollution sometimes, other times it is that the earth is almost partially blocking the sunlight and that filtered light makes the moon appear orange, notice that it doesn't last all night as the Earth and the Moon are both in constant motion.

Answer 7

The light from the moon is filtered thorugh the atmosphere before we see it. All the dust and particles and such filter out some of the light spectrum, causing the moon to appear different colors. It's like looking at things through different colored glasses, only our own atmosphere becomes the glasses :)

Answer 8

2 reasons. the angle nd position of the moon in relitive to the earth and sun, or polution. i know i see the orange full moon the other night. some cultures call tht the blood moon a sigh of evil and a bad omen, ooooooooo booogggeyy booooogggey booo. lol

Answer 9

Because of the pollution in the atmosphere, and the fact that the moon is seen through more atmosphere when it's rising and setting.
Which is also why the sky is blue, only, it's blue without the pollution.

Answer 10

You have no answers... until now. Well, to the best of my knowledge it is because the Sun is reflecting off of it and the Moon is closer to the Sun. There is no other logical reason for this phenom.

Answer 11

the moon is not orange!!!!!!!!