What would happen 2 the reflection of the sun on the moon & 2 night F the moon was covered with aluminium foil
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If the moon was covered with aluminium foil, the reflected light would be brighter but not as bright as daylight, in accordance with the proportion of the moon that is visible.\n\nAnd yes, the earth would heat up a little, because the reflection contains not just extra light, but extra heat as well... and since night is the time when the shadowed earth dissipates the heat, it wouldn't be able to do that if the moon was reflecting some warmth.
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The sun radiates light, thus it is emitted all around it. The moon reflects light from the sun, thus only the area facing the sun will be light.
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To begin with, we should know that the earth revolves around the sun and the moon revoloves around the earth. When the moon comes in between the earth and the sun and the three are in a straight line, some portion of the earth, which is facing the moon experiences the solar eclipse.\nHowever, when the earth comes in between sun and the moon, then lunar eclipse takes place.( Moon does not have any light of its own, we see it shining because of the sun light. Hence when the sunlight is blocked there is no light for moon to shine and there is lunar eclipse)
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.
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It reflects the light of the sun.  What on the moon could possibly produce light?  There's no fire, nuclear reactions, or anything of the like going on there.  Want to prove it yourself?  Go outside on a day where you can see both the moon and the sun in the sky.  Take a good look at the phase of the moon.  Which side of the moon is lit up?  The side facing the sun, since the moon is reflecting the sun's light.
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No. The Moon rocks that the astronauts brought back and are in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, where millions of people have seen them, tell the story. They are glazed on the top side, just a little. \n\nDirect sunlight on the Moon is hot, but not hot enough to melt rock. (it gets to around 320 degrees F.) To cause rocks to glaze like pottery in a kiln, you would need about 1100 degrees F. So we see evidence of Lunar warming.\n\nNo process on Earth can affect the temperature on the Moon. But the Sun, which warms both the Moon and Earth, is unstable. We know the Sun is 4% variable, but we have only had the instruments to study the Sun for about the past fifty years. Maybe it gets more variable sometimes. \n\nTen or twenty thousand years ago-- we can't be sure-- the Sun flared up. It was very brief, or the rocks on the Moon would have become molten and flowed. It had to have lasted less than 24 hours (one rotation of the Earth) or nothing would have survived. I think the American continents were in sunlight at the time. \n\nSo it got hot enough on the Moon to cause the rocks to start to glaze over, but not hot enough long enough to melt them all the way through.\n\nOn Earth, the oceans boiled. There were hurricanes of live steam. A lot of species died, and there were only a few survivors like Noah.\n\nWhen the flare died out, there was all that excess water vapor in the atmosphere. It had to precipitate somewhere, and the first place was at the colest points on the planet, which were still the poles. \n\nYou see, you can't have an ice age, you can't have polar ice caps, you can't have glaciers, without water vapor in the atmosphere. The water tied up in ice was thousands of times more than the Sun would evaporate under normal circumstances. \n\nNow, the icepacks are finally melting back to the size they used to be before the flare. The planet is reaching thermal equilibrium once more. \n\nThere is evidence of other ice ages before that. They may have been caused by comets hitting the earth (in an ocean.) They would have impact energies equivalent to thousands of megatons of TNT, and would similarly put massive amouns of warter vapor into the atmosphere, with the same results.\n\nWhy don't you hear people talking about this? Because there's nothng that we could do about it. It sells more ad time on radio and tv to say that we did it to ourselves with polution. The ice will melt and the oceans will rise about 50 to 100 feet, and the coastal cities will all disappear, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. So the best bet is to move the cities inland and figure out where the new harbors and beaches will be.\n\nYes, we should pollute less, but here's something else to consider. Remember Mount Saint Helens? Biggest volcanic eruption in America in the last few hundred years. But volcanic eruptions happen a few times a century around the world, and that one wasn't especially big by global standards. \n\nNational Geographic did an article on it; you can look it up. They had a beautiful two page photo spread. The pictures one week after the eruption looked like the surface of the Moon. It was all cold grey ashes, dead tree trunks sticking out, and little craters (ponds). The other picture was one year later. It had the exact same tree trunks and ponds (the same spot) but now everything was green and growing. \n\nThe heat of the volcanic ash burned away dead leaves and underbush that kept the sunlight from reaching the forest floor, while the ashes are very good fertilizer. The heat also caused long-buried seeds to germinate.\n\nHere's the point: that one eruption put more dirt, gas, dust and radioactive particles into the atmosphere than everything we've done since day one. And the planet survived. The planet does this to itself REPEATEDLY and survives. \n\nEven the Trinity site, the site of the first atom bomb test, has things living there now, and the radiation level is barely abo
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What you are seeing is the portion of the moon illuminated by the sun that is visible on earth on that particular day.  When the moon is full, you are seeing the full view of the side of the moon that is in full sunlight.  When it is in half-moon phase, you are seeing half of the side that is lit, and half of the dark side.  When it is a new moon, the side facing earth is dark.  Try to keep in mind that, even though the same side of the moon is always facing earth, the moon makes an orbit around the earth in about 28 days--AND ONE REVOLUTION ON ITS OWN AXIS--during which it will go through the phases that you observe from earth.  I have found that making a model helps to understand this.  Use a flashlight for the sun.  Then get a globe for the earth, and a styrofoam ball or a tennis ball for the moon.  You can lay the flashlight on a table or chair, or get someone to hold it for you.  Now focus on the moon making its revolution around the earth, while always facing the earth the same way.  You will see that as the moon circles the earth, the part that is illuminated by the sun changes, resulting in the phases that you see.
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Check out the graphic on this site: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/teachers/moonglow.html\n\nImagine yourself standing on the left side of the Earth away from the sun where it's, of course, night.  See how high the the moon is from the Earth?  The suns rays can still reach it, even though our ground is in darkness...  Hard to describe in words but just try to picture it...
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The effects it would have on earth would not be noticeable.\nLook at the moon, it is huge compared to the size of meteors.\nAnd although it does affect the tides, it does not really affect pressure.\n\nnow considering the speed of the meteor, if it was coming at us at several thousand miles an hour, we would never be able to measure the effect before it hit us.\n\nIt would affect sea levels only if it hit the ocean and sent big wave from the force of the impact. but mostly we would have no idea it was going to hit us.
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Let's do a thought experiment.Imagine that you had a giant compass and drew a circle about 12 feet in diameter on your school parking lot. You are going to be the earth so you stand in the center where the giant stick pin of the compass went. Pick a friend to be the moon. She is going to walk along the path of the  circle and you are going to face her at all times and observe carefully what you see. First have her look in one direction as she marches along the path - like maybe looking at the school building or maybe facing north. Make sure her entire body faces the same way at all times. In other words, she moves in a circle but does not rotate her body. Notice that you see her from the front at times, then the left side, back, right and front again. Now. Compare this to the moon. If the moon didn't rotate we would see all sides of it during the course of its almost one month journey around the earth. In other words, if the moon did NOT rotate we WOULD be able to see the back side.  Now, have your friend do the same as before but this time have her face you at all times so you cannot see her back - only her front . Now. Ask her what she saw in addition to you and she will say that part of the time she saw the school house and part of the time she was even facing away from it and finally ended up facing the school again. She faced first north, then east, then south, then west and finally north again. In other words, she turned in a complete circle while her face was turned toward you at all times. This is what the moon does. One face of the moon is turned toward the earth at all times. In order for that to be true it must rotate, just like your friend. The secret is that it rotates on its axis at the exact same speed as it revolves in its path about the earth. The reason for this behavior is that the moon is captured by the earth's gravity.
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the sun and or the moon
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The Moon does not produce any heat on its own.  The temperature on the surface is dependent upon the amount of sunlight it is receiving at that time.  There is no known water on the Moon so it is very much affected by hydrostatic electricty; much as we are on a day with very low humidity.  Hence the surface particles tend to stand apart creating microfissures which absorb sunlight resulting in a rather low reflectivity even tho the Moon appears bright.  Under other conditions it could be even brighter.
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The sun reflects from the surface of the moon just as it does from the surface of the earth, as viewed from outer space.  Everything we can see is due to the sun reflecting the light from it, such as mountains or desert in the distance.
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All natural light sources generate a "spectrum" of frequencies that approaches the "black body" radiation curve. The peak of that curve denotes the temperature of the emitting object. Certain frequencies can be affected in transit via interaction with materials as in emission and reflection nebula (ie. various places within the Orion constellation). The sun emits UV radiation commensurate with its black body ideal.\n\nUNLESS someone can show that the moon absorbes ALL UV frequencies on reflection then by definition:\n\nMOONLIGHT DOES INDEED CONTAIN UV FREQUENCIES\n\n===============================================\nSome of you people amaze me, you answer questions that you know NOTHING about. Answers like "No because it is reflected light" are a case in point. Is your blue shirt invisible in the mirror because the light coming from your shirt is lost as it reflects off of the mirror. I THINK NOT! Reflected light IS LIGHT. Some of it is absorbed, reflected, refracted but it is light. YES; the UV portion in moonlight is very weak, hey guess what -ALL THE LIGHT frequencies in moonlight are weak; THATS WHY MOONLIGHT IS DIM.\n==============================\nUV is NOT produced only from objects above 24000 degrees. It is produced at ALL temperatures, but the lower the temperature the lower the amount of UV that is produced. PLEASE Google "black body radiation"
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Interesting question.  We would no longer have the moon's tidal forces, so no more high and low tides.  This would destroy the vast ecosystems along shorelines that depend on tides for their existence, and could well cause very negative effects on the Earth's entire balance of life, since these areas produce the most nutrients.
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The moon reflects sunlight and even reflected sunlight can interact with droplets of water in the atmosphere such as thin clouds like a layer of fog.  You see the light as a ring because that is the angle of reflection (or refraction) of light from the moon through the moisture's spherical drops to your eyes.  The moon can even produce moonbows, similar to rainbows (but no pot of gold?).
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During a solar eclipse, the moon is between the earth and the sun, blocking the sun from view. During a lunar eclipse, the earth is between the sun and the moon and it is the shadow of the earth moving across the moon that creates the eclipse. You can create a visual to help you with this by using a flashlight (the sun) a softball (the earth) and a pingpong ball (the moon) and try out the different positions to see how each works. \nGood luck!