The Moon has a reflective surface. So it reflects off of the suns light. Making it seem like it is shining! The Moon also revolves around the Earth. So it reflects differently around the Earth, giving Earth the different moons!!
No, the moon does not. The reason that the moon looks like it does is because it is lit by the light of the sun.
The moon's surface reflects the sun's light.
The moon looks like it produces light for the same reason that your mirror looks like it is producing your face when you look at it. It turns out that the moon has a high enough albedo (reflectivity) that it reflects enough sunlight to appear to be lighted up.
A crescent moon looks most like
because the sun's light reflects off of it
The sun's rays hit the moon, which reflect to Earth, making it look like it's shining. The moon looks like it has a different shape every night because the moon reflects the light in different ways depending on where in orbit is the moon.
No. The Moon has no light emitting energy. The light we see from the Moon is nothing more than reflected light from the Sun. This is why we see different shapes of the Moon as it goes through its cycle of phases. We see the moon from different angles as it moves relative to the sun.
Different parts of the moon reflect different amounts of light. The darker areas reflect less light and are often referred to using the word "Mare" meaning sea.
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Because the distance the light travels through Earth's atmosphere is greater when we perceive the Moon to be on the horizon, and the atmosphere acts like a magnifying lens.