Does earth (or another planet) reflect its sun's light on to some other planet just as our moon does?

Question

If so, is it as cool, as sweet and mystifying as our moon's light?

Answer 1

That is how we see the planets in the night sky. They reflect the light from the sun. From other planets and the moon the Earth would also shine by reflected solar light

Answer 2

Actually, it's cooler. If you look carefully at the waxing crescent moon (only up to 2 or 3 days after new moon) right after sunset, you'll see the shadowed side of the moon light up with a pale glow. That's the sunlight from the day side of the Earth reflected back against the moon.

Answer 3

Not quite like the moon does.
Our moon is very close to us (astronomically speaking) so it appears large and bright in our sky.
In fact, our moon is unique in the solar system - its larger compared to its planet than any other planet/moon system, and since we are relatively close to the sun it gets a lot more light than any other moon in the solar system.

But all planets reflect sunlight - Jupiter is bright in the southwest in the early evening, Mars rises in the east around midnight, and Saturn, Venus, and Mercury are visible in the east before dawn. They are all visible due to the reflection of sunlight to our eyes. But they are very far away, so they appear small.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthshine