If you were on the lunar surface, you would experience a solar eclipse as Earth clicks into alignment between the sun and moon. The blue planet would appear dark, surrounded by a red-tinged ring ...

As sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere, shorter wavelengths like blue light scatter, while longer wavelengths like red light continue on to illuminate the moon. This is why the moon appears red dur ...

Blue light is typically easily scattered by the Earth’s atmosphere. Red light, on the other hand, is scattered less by the atmosphere, allowing some of it to pass through and reach the moon ...

The atmosphere bends the sunlight toward the moon. Blue light gets scattered in the atmosphere, which is why the sky is blue. Only the red portion of the light spectrum cuts through to reach the ...

which is why our skies are blue. “Red light is mostly unaffected by the gases of the atmosphere, so it travels all the way through them and out the other side where it can shine on the moon, mak ...

such as blue and green, to be scattered and filtered by Earth's atmosphere. In contrast, the longer wavelengths, like red and orange, manage to pass through the atmosphere and reach the Moon's ...