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Why the Moon appears in so many colors? (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by SpaceFacts@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
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all photographed in a time span of 10 years😱

Evidence : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/photographer-marcella-giulia-pace-moon-colors

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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 33 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm going to take a swing at the moon reflects a relatively uniform spectrum of light from the sun but our varied atmospheric conditions can alter the refraction of that light.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The exception being when it is occluded by earth during a lunar eclipse and instead reflects spectrum of light that got by our atmosphere.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Yup. Always appears in shades of grey from Quebec, Canada…

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That is sad. Sorry.