why are there no colors on the moon?

Answer 1

There *are* colors on the moon. It's just that it's so far away you can't see it. The reason why it appears white is because it's mainly covered in fine silty dust that's light enough to be reflective. It's reflecting the light of the sun, which is so bright it doesn't *appear* to have color other than white.

Also, it's kind of like a mirror. Imagine reflecting the sun in a mirror. All you see is a blinding white light, correct? But the truth is all the colors of the sprectrum are there, it's just that they're at a wavelength the human eye can't detect. Same thing happens with the light reflected off the moon.

Answer 2

The moon does have color. The color of the Moon changes during what time of day it is. Color vision is not very well understood. It is known that the eye and brain try to adjust the colors you see to correct for the color of the light shining on it. That is why grass looks green even when you see it under the red light of sunset. When you look at the Moon during the day, your eye sees the blue background of the sky, and your brain thinks that the light is blue, and (incorrectly) figures out what color the Moon must actually be to look the way it does under blue light. When you look at it at night, the brain has more trouble since it has no way of guessing what color the light is. This might account for the apparent color difference.

Another possibility, which is certainly part of it, is that the color difference is due to skylight. When you look at the Moon during the day, you see the moonlight, plus all the blue sunlight which is scattered by the atmosphere between the Moon and you. At night, the atmosphere doesn't have any sunlight to scatter.

Answer 3

The Moon's surface is actually coloured!!! Some colours in certain conditions may be faintly visible to the eye when viewing through a telescope. But to see the colours on the Moon in all it's glory you need to take digital images and process them in a certain way.Colours seen on different nights are different, which means they are not reliable at all.
It is usual to give up in despair and convert all colour images of the moon to grey.
Arguments against this include:

1.even if the colours are false the result is pretty and
2.differences in lava flows on the maria show up better in colour.
3.Who cares, amateurs are in the game for fun

Answer 4

Sorry, but none of these answers are wholly correct. Some aren't even close.

First of all, Apollo 17 did find orange moon rocks. Green glass-like rocks were also found.

The lunar soil is primarily made of oxygen and silica with some iron, calcium, manganese, and aluminum...all of which generally are shades of gray in nature. Not having an atmosphere does play a role, since the environment remains pristine, sterile, inert. No atmosphere means that what you see is what you see!

Answer 5

I think it's because the moon is made of matters that absorb all colors.
Colors are made when light hits an object and it doesn't absorb a color. For example, when light his a leaf, and the leaf absorbs all colors except green, people see the leaf being a green color. In other words the green light bounces off the leaf and that's what we see.
If the moon absorbs all light, then nothing will be bounced off meaning the moon will have no color.

Answer 6

The moon's surface just doesn't have the right chemicals for it- the rocks it is made of happen to be grey.

Answer 7

THERE Are coLors On tHe MooN! maybe you can't see them.. hehehe

Answer 8

there is every color imaginable on the moon, but we only percieve it in shades of grey, green, blue, yellow, red and orange, because of its lack of an atmosphere, and the effects of light polarization and distance caused by the conditions of our atmosphere and relative position in relation to the moon at any given time.

Answer 9

dear friend,
I think it is nature but he appears as white because it absorbs all colors except white

Answer 10

THERE IS NO ATMOSPHERE ON THE MOON HENCE ALL THE LIGHT FALLS ON THE MOON IS REFLECTED IN FULL HENCE WE SEE NO COLOURS