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Why does the moon get very cold?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

During night on the moon, because of the absence of an atmosphere, the temperature on the moon gets very cold as all of the sun's light is radiated out into space - indeed it can get a lot colder than the Earth can ever get.

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