If you were standing on the bright side of the moon, would you need sunglasses?

Question

Standing on the side of the moon that is reflecting the sun. Additionally, would you need sunscreen? Would you be hot?

Answer 1

Actually, you would only need a spacesuit with a tinted visor since the lack of an atmosphere on the moon would make your body explode as soon as you stepped outside.

Even if you could stand on the moon in your Bermuda shorts, sunscreen would do you no good: the IV rays and various forms of radiation emitted by the sun would fry your skin since the moon has no atmosphere to shield any radiation out (let alone a magnetic field). You would actually fare better on Mars since it does have an atmosphere. (Don't leave without your spacesuit for that trip, either.)

Answer 2

Yes, more so than on earth, because the sun would appear brighter (no atmosphere to block part of it). The ultraviolet rays would be lethal to your eyes, so a really good UV blocking lens would be mandatory. In case you are wondering, you probably would not be able to see stars in daylight from the moon, because, even though there is virtually no atmosphere to scatter their light, the irises in your eyes would be closed due to the glare from the surface of the moon (which is about the shade of asphalt), and wouldn't let in enough light. If you blocked the moon's surface and were turned away from the sun for a few minutes you would, however, start to see stars. Apollo photographs do not show stars because the irises on their cameras were closed (stopped down, in photography) to account for the light, just like your camera must do here to keep from overexposing the photograph. That concept must be unknown to those who use lack of stars in the photographs as evidence that we never landed on the moon. Next clear night you can be at a shopping center, stand under a bright light in the parking lot (way dimmer than the sun) and see how few stars you can see.

Answer 3

I don't think there is a "bright side of the moon". The brightness of the moon is caused by the sunlight reflecting of the surface. If the moon was constantly bright there would be no such thing as a lunar eclipse. An eclipse is caused by the earth obstructing the sunlight between the sun and the moon. If the moon was bright in itself you wouldn't have eclipses.

Answer 4

The answer is yes and yes. Interestingly the side of you facing the sun would get very hot while the side of you in the shade would drop deep below zero.
Best to keep moving around in your space suit!

If you mean sunscreen for your skin then no, the space suit would protect you. Bare skin on the moon would result in your blood boiling through your skin

Answer 5

Well, I think that you would need more than some sunscreen and a pair of sunglasses. The heat of the sun alone would be able to cook you until you were nice and crispy, and the brightness would blind you instantly.

Answer 6

Yes you would definitely need sunglasses... and you would need a little more than sunscreen to handle the 200+ degree F temperature.

You could set out a pan of water on the ground and watch it start to boil.

Conversely, in the shadow of the moon, the temperature dips to minus 280 degree F. You could set your pan of water on the ground and watch it turn to ice.

Answer 7

Yes and yes.

The Apollo astronauts had dark visors on their space helmets, which did the job of sunglasses. The space suit protected their skin from the ultraviolet light from the Sun. And the space suit had a liquid cooling garment built in to keep them cool. Most of the stuff in the backpack was actually the cooling machinery and not oxygen.

Answer 8

Yes. you will need sunglasses. I will recommend some salt instead of the sunscreen. After a few minutes you will thoroughly toasted and ready to eat.

Answer 9

I think you would need more than a pair of sunglasses and sunscreen.
How about a Space suit so you could survive.

Answer 10

You would need more than a pair of sunglasses, if the heat won't get you' the radiation will