why does the moon turn orange sometimes?

Answer 1

Have you ever wondered why the moon is more orange or yellow in color when it first rises at night. 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.

Answer 2

RE:
why does the moon turn orange sometimes?

Answer 3

The factories on the moon are creating more greenhouses gases than Al Gore thinks they should and the orange haze is the pollution

Answer 4

It usually will only look orange when it's fairly low in the sky, due to pollution in the atmosphere obscuring the light at that angle.

Answer 5

Because the Earths atmosphere acts as a prism.

Answer 6

atmispheric conditions, and how the light reflects off of all the space dust and trash up there.

Answer 7

it is the way the moon is facing the sun.

Answer 8

smog or ash in the atmosphere

Answer 9

I think it often happens during lunar eclipse.

Answer 10

it's because of dust