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Our atmosphere reflects most of the energy within the sunlight that falls to Earth, thus preventing us from getting too warm. We also has the atmosphere to transfer around heat as a fluid.
The Moon does not have an atmosphere. So the energy of the sunlight goes straight to the surface, and without any air or wind to cool it down, that heat just keeps building up. Just like the pavement on a hot summer day.
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∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoThis is because the moon does not have an atmosphere to absorb any energy, so the surface takes all of the energy directed at it, much of which is in the form of heat.
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∙ 7y agoBecause the moon has no atmosphere - to dissipate the heat from the sun.
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the plant that gets direct sunlight
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cause it gets direct sunlight
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