is there sunlight on moon? i am bit confused!!!!!!!?

Answer 1

here's a simple experiment to help you understand it.... take a bowl and set it on the end of your table.... put a cup beside it a few inches away.... now take your flashlight and go to the other end of the table and shine the light on the cup and bowl.... it's the same light on both, right?... same deal ... earth and moon are the bowl and cut and the flashlight is the sun....

Answer 2

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Two things are always going on with the Moon. First and foremost, the Earth is rotating once every 24 hours, so the Moon, like every object oin the sky, rises at a certain time (the Earth rotates so that it comes into view on the eastern horizon) and sets approximately 12 hours late (the Earth rotates 180° and the Moon appears to drop below the western horizon). Secondly, the Moon is revolving in orbit around the Earth once every 29.5 days, This causes the Moon to advance from west to east against the background stars, a bit every 24 hours, which causes the Moon to rise a liitle bit later (approximately 50 minutes) every day, and set a little bit later. This also puts it in a different location relative to the Sun, so that it's lit from a slightly different angle. At New Moon, the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, so that the side of the Moon facing towards us receives no direct sunlight, and is only lit by dim sunlight reflected from the Earth. As it moves around the Earth, the side we can see gradually becomes more illuminated by direct sunlight. After a week, the Moon is 90° away from the Sun in the sky and is half illuminated, what we call First Quarter because it is about a quarter of the way around the Earth. A week after this, the Moon is 180° away from the Sun, so that Sun, Earth and Moon form a line. The Moon is fully illuminated by the Sun, so this is called Full Moon. The Earth's shadow points towards the Moon at this time, but usually the Moon passes above or below the shadow and no eclipse occurs. A week later the Moon has moved another quarter of the way around the Earth, to the Third Quarter position. The Sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the Moon. Finally, a week later, the Moon is back to its New Moon starting position. Usually it passes above or below the Sun, but occasionally it passes right in front of the Sun, and we get an eclipse of the Sun. The Moon's phases are NOT caused by the shadow of the Earth falling on the Moon. In fact the shadow of the Earth only falls on the Moon twice a year when there is a lunar eclipse. There is nothing weird about this. It's been going on for billions of years, since long before there were any humans to observe it. There is a theory that the Moon was a necessary stabilizing force on the Earth which made it a suitable place for life to evolve. The Universe goes on whether there are humans in it or not, so there's not much point in asking why it operates the way it does.

Answer 3

Of course! We can see it bounce off the moon every time we look in the sky. The moon reflects about 6% of the sunlight it receives. Sunlight on the moon looks different because there is no atmosphere to affect it. Sunlight appears white on the moon. The reason why we have so many colors in our sky is because our atmosphere is acting as a big prism.

Answer 4

Yes, there's sunlight on the moon. We see the moon because sun light is bouncing off of it. The half of the moon facing the sun is always lit, and the half that faces away is dark. That's why the moon will look "half full" etc. When the moon is half full, it's because the earth (our view) is actually at an angle where we see the line between light and dark on the moon. The dark part is mostly invisible, and we only see the part of the moon that light is shining on.

Answer 5

Sure. The moon has sunlight falling down on it just like it does on earth (unless there's a lunar eclipse, that is). When we see a bright moon, that's just reflected sunlight. So, if you were standing on the moon at that time where we could see you, the sun would be up in the sky and very bright.

Answer 6

Yes - of course.

There is sunlight to a greater or lesser extent on all bodies in the solar system.

Even the most remote planets will still receive a small amount of light from the Sun.

The light you see from the moon is sunlight reflected off the Moon and back to Earth.

Answer 7

Of course there is! The moon is a celestial object (a satellite), and it gets sunlight like all the other planets in the solar system. Actually sunlight travels out of our system but its power is not enought to call it sunlight. If we can see the starts in the sky...other galaxies see our sun as a star.

Answer 8

The sun shining on the moon is what makes the moon visible to us. The amount on the moon has to do with the earth's position between the sun and the moon. An eclipse is when the earth blocks the sun's light from the moon.

Answer 9

When you look at the Moon, you are seeing light from the Sun that is reflected off of the surface of the Moon. The Moon itself does not give of any light.

Answer 10

yes. when you see the moon glowing in the sky, it's because it is reflecting the sunlight back toward the earth.
actually, all the planets receive some sunlight... even if it is a minuscule amount like the planets in the outer solar system.