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Why is there a 400 degree difference on the moon between shade and sun?
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∙ 14y ago
The energy of the sun heats the illuminated areas while the unilluminated areas radiate heat into space.
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Temperature on the moon can range from -173 degree C at night to plus 127 degree C in the daytime. How do you you explain the vast difference in day and night temperature?
The Moon has no atmosphere with which to provide thermal inertia to its environment.
What is the difference between a Lunar-Eclipse and a Solar-Eclipse?
In a solar eclipse, the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, casting a shadow on the Earth. In a lunar eclipse, the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the Moon.
What is the difference between a solar and a lunar eclipse in points?
The difference is a solar eclipse occurs when the moon pass between the earth and the sun. A lunar eclipse is when the earth pass between the sun and the moon
What is the difference between a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipsee?
A lunar eclipse is when the shadow of the earth passes over the moon, and a solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the earth and the sun.
What is the difference between the moon and the earth?
the moon is smaller than the earth and
What is the difference between moon and Moon?
it is called the moon light Theonmena
What is the difference between the Earth's atmosphere and the Moon's atmosphere?
The difference is that the earth has one and the moon doesn't.
What is the temperature of the shade on the moon?
It like 20' on the moons shade
How does a gibbous moon work?
The shade of the earth on the moon is what causes the gibbous moon.
What is the difference between crescent and gibbous?
A crescent moon is defined as the moon phase that is a few days after a new moon. A gibbous moon is the moon phase that is between the first quartet and the full moon.
What is the Difference between moon and earths size?
earth is bigger than the moon
What is the difference between the moon that goes around the earth and Saturn moon titan?
sun
Why does not a solar eclipse occur every time there is a new moon?
The Moon's orbit around the Earth is not exactly in the same plane as the Ecliptic - the plane in which Earth moves around the Sun. There is something like a 5 degree difference between the two.
What is the difference between a person's weight on the earth and on the moon?
The difference between a person's weight on the earth and on the moon has to due with the difference between mass and weight. Mass is a measure of the amount of matter and weight is the pull of gravity on that mass. Gravity on the moon is about 83% that on earth, so if you weigh 100 lbs on earth, you will weigh approximately 17 lbs on the moon.
What is the difference between TIMING OF low and high tides and why?
the moon
Temperature on the moon can range from -173 degree C at night to plus 127 degree C in the daytime. How do you you explain the vast difference in day and night temperature?
The Moon has no atmosphere with which to provide thermal inertia to its environment.
What is difference between in full moon and new moon night?
a full moon is when the moon is completely full and completely round. a new moon is when the moon appears to have dissapeared.
