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Why does the moon glow?

In ancient times, people considered the moon to be the goddess - the patroness of the night. Since then, man has learned a lot about its true nature and even visited it. Science has managed to solve many mysteries related to this only natural satellite of the earth. One of these mysteries, which has long ceased to be a legend, is moonlight. The Moon, unlike the stars, including the Sun, does not emit constant light, but it can reflect someone else's. Therefore, moonlight is just the sun's rays reflected from the surface of the moon.

You may have heard the expression dark side of the moon. It does not mean at all that some part of the lunar surface cannot reflect light. It's just that the moon rotates around its axis with the same speed with which it makes a complete revolution around the Earth, and therefore it always faces the same side towards it. However, now the images of the far side of the Moon, received from satellites, were seen on the screens of their televisions by people in many countries.

There is no layer of atmosphere around the Moon, and this leads to very curious phenomena. Thus, the temperature of the lunar surface, illuminated for 14 days by the Sun, rises above the boiling point of water. For the next 14 days, it drops sharply, because in the absence of heating due to sunlight and an atmosphere capable of retaining heat near the surface, the latter cools very quickly.

The Earth illuminates the Moon with the reflected light of the Sun, but this does not help to slightly increase the temperature of the "lunar night", which is approximately -200 ° C.

Author: Likum A.

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