When looking at something in outer space, you're looking through the atmosphere. It's the various types of dust in the atmosphere that gives the moon its color. It isn't the moon that's colored, it's what's between you and the moon.
2007-03-24 04:23:07
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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The only way that you can see the moon is because the sun shines off it. If you think about what happens between the sun, the moon and the light reflected back to earth, nothing much changes each day. The only thing that does change is how the light gets to you through earth's atmosphere. For the same reason that the sun appears redder as it approaches the horizon, the moon appears more orange as it rises - due to the fact that the red end of the spectrum scatters less in the atmosphere than the violet end. If you watch a moon which is very orange/yellow as it rises, you will see it become more white as it moves overhead.
Pollutants in the atmosphere can also affect your view of the moon's colour.
2007-03-24 04:25:01
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answered by SteveK 5
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The Earths atmosphere plus the light from the sun, put them together and you have the light and colors of the Moon. Its really an optical illusion, but we are looking at the moon from the ground, looking through all the different layers of the Earths atmosphere.
2007-03-24 04:27:27
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answered by tennman012000 3
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it's the sun's light that reflex off from the moon
2007-03-27 18:07:49
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answered by It's about the Spirit 2
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When the earth curves the sunlight, it may or may not be direct, or somethinglike that. Im just guessing.
2007-03-24 04:22:46
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answered by Anonymous
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The way the sin reflects off of it.
2007-03-24 04:23:58
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answered by Alex P 2
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It has to do with what is in the atmosphere.
i.e. smoke, volcanic ash etc.
2007-03-24 04:25:32
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answered by sunkissed 6
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