Moon is non selflumenous, how is it refected and how produced the cool and beauty of light is produced. how it is possible ?
2007-02-25 23:12:17 · 8 answers · asked by Sp m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The moon's light is made by planet shine.
The phenomenon known as planetshine occurs when reflected sunlight from a planet illuminates the dark side of one of its moons. Typically, this results in the moon's dark side being bathed in a soft, faint light. The best known example of planetshine is Earthshine, which can be seen from Earth when the Moon is a thin crescent. Planetshine has been observed elsewhere in the solar system, however; in particular it has recently been used by the Cassini space probe to image portions of the moons of Saturn even when they are not lit by the Sun.
2007-02-25 23:18:53 · answer #1 · answered by butthead45ca 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi! Good question...
I'll try to explain it. Every planet in our solar system has a property to reflect the sunlight up to some extent. Our Earth too appears shining in blue colour when seen from the outer space. But it reflects sunlight up to some extent only because it has atmosphere. Our Moon has no atmosphere, so it reflects the sunlight up to a greater extent when compared to Earth. And one more astonishing fact is, the moon's surface is not so cool as you thought when sunlight is falling on it. Moon's surface will measure about a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit when it is afternoon on Moon. It'll measure -170 degrees centigrade when it is night on Moon. It appears to us that Moon is giving us light but, in fact it is reflecting sunlight. Not knowing this fact, our ancestors thought that Moon is also giving light along with Sun. But the later experiments proved that it is false. Thus the Moon is giving us cool...oops..sorry...hot light!
2007-02-26 02:10:11 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ ΛDIƬΥΛ ♥ ııllllııllıı 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe how many wrong answers you got! The moon's "shine" is from reflections of the sun's light... period. The effect of "Earth shine" on the moon can be seen when the dark portion of the moon can be seen. This happens when the moon is in a phase closer to the new moon phase. When the moon is full, you are seeing its reflection of the sunlight.
2007-02-26 01:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As moon is earths satellite it revols around the earth,while revolving around the earth the light erom sun -the major source of energy falld onto it & get refflected &thus the moon reflected
2007-02-27 23:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by yogesh a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hai,
moon gets light from the sun and shine .so,moon is reflect light during night.
2007-02-25 23:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by Sudheer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun hits the earth and bouncees of and shines on the moon
2007-02-26 00:30:49 · answer #6 · answered by buckeyes_fan10 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
moon get power from sun and it refeletcs.
2007-02-25 23:20:16 · answer #7 · answered by sathish k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
plz c urself in mirror when ur wife is around!
2007-02-26 18:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋