{"id":24911,"date":"2022-05-15T04:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24911"},"modified":"2022-05-15T04:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T04:56:46","slug":"colors-of-the-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24911","title":{"rendered":"Colors of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2205\/MoonColors_Pace_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear &#8212; it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July &#8212; where the moon, in Earth&#8217;s shadow, appeared a faint red &#8212; due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America &#8212; an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220515.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24911\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24912,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions\/24912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}