is the moon glitters in sky?
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IT DOES NOT GLITTER. ACTUALLY ITS THE REFLECTION OF THE SUN WHICH MAKES THE MOON APPEAR TO GLITTER.
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The moon is not white. It is light grey and reflects alot less light than earth. I merely looks white because of the tremendous amount of sunlight that falls upon it. If the moon had the same albedo as earth it would be 5 times as bright!\n\nAbout 17% of the moons surface (the Mare) is basalt, that is solidified lava. It is similar in composition as volcanic rocks from Hawaii and Iceland. The lunar highlands (the lighter parts that make up 83% of the surface) are made out of a light colored rock called anorthosite. The Adirondacks in the eastern US are made up of the same stuff.\n\nThe mare basalts has alot of iron, manganes and titanium in it. The anorthosite has a lot of calcium and aluminium. The anorthosite is therefore not only lighter in color but also in weight.
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i don't see what you mean but this i can say about the moon. the night sky in australia is normally clear and i am fascinated when i see the moon through its cycle ; full moon, 1st quarter, last quarter and new moon. i am the one smiling not the moon. at new moon cycle i am the one frowning not the moon
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Because the moon reflects light from the sun.
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I have often seen them. The moon light will show upper atmospheric pollution that may be caused by large fires,this was a banner year for brush fires.  As I write a large Volcano in Italy is spewing ash. In short anything that would give off a significant amount of pollution.  if you remember the date it was, go to the library and research the newspapers for calamities on that date. A fine mist can magnify the moons light.  I remember seeing pollution rainbows from the oil wells that were set burning in freeing Kuwait from Iraq.
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Oh no, you've figured out my hoax!!! You busted me, you're right, its not round. Sorry, I get silly sometimes. If you are at a position when the moon passes directly perpendicular to you relative to the sun's position then you will see a perfect half lit moon. you can simulate this with a big right triangle by taking a golf ball or some other ball and placing it at the  90 degree corner and placing a flashlight at one of the other corners pointing directly at the ball. Now line up your sight from the third corner and you should see a perfect half lit ball. :)
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Earth shine is the correct answer. When the Moon is crescent as seen from Earth, the Earth is nearly full as seen from the Moon. And Earth is bigger and has much higher reflectivity than the Moon, so a nearly full Earth gives much more light than a nearly full Moon does.
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Moons and girls both glow with light from the sun that loves them.  They only show you small amounts of their personalities until they feel complete with their love then they glow so beautifully that all the world notices.\n\n\nHow's that?
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the moon is not a star
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no it's not cos of the earth's shadow on the moon. its cos of the position of the sun and the angle at which the sun's rays hit the moon. the moon moves around the earth. if it moves further from the sun, less light will be reflected and you see a half-moon or quarter-moon.\n\nas u know, the light hte moon 'projects' is actually the reflection of light. the moon isnt a source of light. \n\nwhen the sun is directly behind the moon, and it shines on the 'back' of the moon, this causes an eclipse cos ppl on earth can only see a dark circle (the moon - as it does not reflect light in this case) and a whitish circle around the moon (the sun's rays)\n\nhope this helps!! :D
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The plane is nearer to us. The light rays are diverging towards us.  Though the moon and meteor or are far away. They are extended source of light.  The moon’s rays are parallel. In this situation both lights from meteor and plane will not be visible to us in the bright Back ground of moon’s light.
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Its an illusion.  Its because the moon is closer to objects to which you can compare it.
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The moon appears yellow when it is low in the sky (or even orange or red) for the same reason that the sun appears yellow when it is low in the sky (or even orange or red). \n\nNitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air are the right size to scatter away blue light from the mostly white light emitted from the sun (and reflected from the moon). This is called Rayleigh-Tyndall scattering, and there are many answers here dealing with that question. \n\nThis is the reason that the sky looks blue during the day, but during the night, with only the moon for lumination, there is not enough light to brighten the sky sufficiently for us to think it is blue. \n\nWhen the sun and the moon are low in the horizon, the light from these bodies travels through more atmosphere, so more blue light is scattered away, leaving orange or even red light:\n\n1. When the moon or sun is high in the sky:\n\n(whitish light from sun or moon)-(blue light scattered away)= (yellow light)\n\n2. When the moon or sun is low in the sky:\n\n(whitish light from sun or moon)-(more blue light scattered away because sun or moon is lower in sky)= (orange or red light)\n\nIt should be noted that the moon can not only appear whitish, yellow, red or orange, but because of refraction effects, can appear to have a green rim or a red rim (see reference), related to the green flash.\n\nAlso, if there are smoke or dust particles in the air, then instead of Rayleigh scattering, one encounters the phenomenon called nonselective scattering, where the red is scattered away, and the sun or moon appears blue. \n\nRayleigh scattering (blue gets scattered) occurs when the size of the scattering particle is smaller than the wavelength of the light. \n\nNonselective scattering (red gets scattered) occurs when the size of the scattering particle is about the same as the wavelength of the light. \n\nMie scattering (all colors scattered; causes the white of clouds and smoke) occurs when the size of the scattering particle is much larger than the wavelength of light.
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By the light of the silvery moon.
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I think it would because while the sun and the moon both shine, the moon is not boastful and sometimes hides away only showing it's light some of the time and, even then, only softly. Doesn't that seem beautiful to you?
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the moon is always there, but it is probably a new moon, a phase of the moon where the sun doesn't shine light on it at the popsition that we can see it. The other stages include combinations of waning, waxing & gibbious and cresent
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You see the reflected sunlight- Each planet has a different reflectivity index, termed the albido.  Venus, for example, is covered in light-colored clouds, so it has a high albedo, and reflects a lot of light, making it a very bright planet.  Just for interst, the moon has an extremely low albedo, around the same as black powder- If the moon had an albedo as high as venus, or even better where covered in white powder like snow, moonlight would be bright enough read fine print by and we wouldnt need streetlights on clear nights with a full moon.