Why is the moon sometimes orange?

Answer 1

This effect is caused by the atmosphere of the earth.

The reason for the orange color is due to the scattering of light by the atmosphere. When the moon is near the horizon, the moonlight must pass through much more atmosphere than when the moon is directly overhead. By the time the moonlight reaches your eyes, the blue, green, and purple pieces of visible light have been scattered away by air molecules. That's why you only see yellow, orange, or red.

The moon can have an orange color at any time of the year. Sometimes the moon appears orange even when it's directly overhead. This occurs when there's a lot of dust, smoke, or pollution in the atmosphere. The size of those particles will determine the type of color you will see.

Hope that helps! ^^

Answer 2

oh i heard this one about a few weeks ago. Scientist have proven that during a period of solar acitvity the moon sometimes become orange. They said that when the solar wind, which is a stream of charged particals, are ejected from the suns upper atmosphere, the charged particals reacted with the particals on the moon causing a mass chemical change. The moon's surface actually turns in to sharp or mild (i forget) chedder cheese. And it later turns back into white cheese after the period is over
interesting stuff i tell xD
bah the others were right

Answer 3

Hi. The Moon is never orange, although the light can be if it passes through enough air and dust.

Answer 4

It's to do with the way the light refracts through the air. If you've ever seen light shine through a crystal and get split up into different colours, you'll be able to visualize what I mean.

Answer 5

If you live in LA it is probably the smog.