why does the moon apear to be orange or red???
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Dust in the upper atmosphere of Earth can make the moon appear to be yellow or orange, even red. The effect is strongest when the moon is near the horizon.
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The moon can appear orange when it is near the horizon.  The light from the moon (reflected light from the Sun) passes through a much longer path though the Earth atmosphere than when it is overhead.  Light that passes through the atmosphere is scatter by particles in the atmosphere but not in the same way for all wavelengths.  Blue light scatters more easily than red light.  When the near-white light from the moon passes through the atmopshere blue light is scattered away more that red light.  Removing more blue light makes the red light appear stronger.  The combined effect produces a red-orange hue.  This also explain with the sky is blue.  The blue is the scattered light.
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The moon is made of rocks with a high mineral content, including rhyolite.  The combination of materials absorbs all colors of light relatively equally, reflecting a combination of colors that is translated by our eyes as gray.
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Because of dust in the air.  The angle is the same year round.  What makes the yellow moon look yellow is the amount of dust in the air, and at harvest time it is caused by increased agricultural activity.\n\nVolcanic dust is smaller and higher and can make the moon look blue.
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The appearance of the Moon is also dependent on the fact the the Earth is rotating on its axis. Objects appear at the horizon, drift overhead and slip below the horizon again. that is the main reason the Moon looks as it does.\n\n;-D The Moon is romantic! Let's not forget that!
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no it is a reflection of the suns light.  That is why you can still see the moon during the day soemtimes.  It is still getting light from the sun.
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When the light from the sun hits the moon, it is reflected to us which causes "Moonlight". This is the same light and source that allows us to see a bit of the shadows on the moon. \n\nThe suns and moons position in relation to one another is also what gives us the phases of the moon.  When the moon is directly opposite of the sun (with Earth not being directly in the line of sight) this gives us our full moon. \n\nIn short, there is only one type of light on the moon, the suns light hitting the moons surface.
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White light is not split up by different particles in the air (the exception are water droplets in a rainbow, the blue sky and the orange and red of sunsets and sunrises). Objects outside the atmosphere reflect back their colors, without white light being broken up by air. The moon is yellow, Mars is red and look at all the colors of Jupiter. \n\n\nWhite light is made up (already contains) the different colors of the visible light spectrum: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. (Roy Green bit Iris Vaughn is a mmemonic to remember the colors) \n\nWhat distinguished the different colors in the spectrum is their wavelength. When white light hits an object like grass or wood only the color you see the object as, is reflected, the other colors are absorbed.
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The moon does tend to remain one color, white.  However, sometimes at it's lowest point in the sky it appears red due to our atmosphere.  Along the same lines, the moon does not "give off" light like the sun does.  It only reflects it.  Therefore the sun will go through a much greater change of color due to its infraction of light off our surface and atmosphere.
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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It has nothing to do with color. \n\nFrom wikipedia:\n"This definition of blue moon originated from a mistake in an article in the 1946 Sky & Telescope magazine, which failed in an attempt to infer the earlier definition used in the original Farmer's Almanac"\n\nthe earlier definition being the extra full moon in a quarter of a year(with the third of the 4th moons being the blue one, for some reason)\n\n\nhmhensen has it backwards. Because it doesn't happen often, the common colloquialism "Once in a blue moon" was derived from the lunar event.
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I think your question is wrong.  You assume that all people prefer the sun to the moon, and I think that is incorrect.\n\nSome people like sunshine and sunny days; the beach, surf, lazy summer afternoons.  \nSome people prefer the mystery and wonder of the full moon and how it lights up the earth with a silvery glow that is unlike anything man-made.\nYour question is like asking "why do people like vanilla more than chocolate?".
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The setting sun glows a reddish color on days when there are more particles in the air for the light to be scattered by.\nTypically, because the sunlight has to travel through more atmosphere when it is 4 degrees above the horizon as opposed to when it is directly above, there are already more particles in the air to scatter the light, so the sunset appears orange because the smaller wavelengths of visible light (blue, green, yellow) are scattered away from our eye.\nThe more particles (and the larger they are) that are in the atmosphere (water vapor particles due to humid air, pollution), the more wavelengths of light can be scattered.  So orange will get scattered away leaving only red coming to our eyes.
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The moon's light is actually just a reflection.  The surface of the moon reflects the suns light.  That is why you can have half moons, quarter moons, etc.  The moon itself doesn't produce any light.
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Because the Moon is round and the Sun is the only source of light in our solar system - only half of it can be illuminated at one time.  But sometimes the side we don't see it lit up - when we have a new Moon.
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no..a red tide results from  a red type of plankton in the water turning it red.  The color of the moon results from the bending of light from the sun through the earths atmosphere reflecting off of the moons surface.
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Obviously the moon has to be between the Sun and the\nEarth, so maybe they want you to say, "when the Moon is new".\nNote that this is the *opposite* of a full moon.