http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/category/1.aspx Misc en-GB Peter Morris Subtext Version 2.1.1.1 http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/archive/2009/06/27/what-colour-is-the-moon.aspx <p>Well, if you are apparently ignorant like myself you would say “White” or maybe “Shades of Grey”.  This US Government website has a kind of “Google Moon” app which uses photographs from the 1994 Clementine project – which was a satellite sent to The Moon to capture images of its surface.</p> <p><a href="http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/moonpick.htm">http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/moonpick.htm</a></p> <p>Choose the 2nd option “Natural color” and then click on an area of The Moon to zoom in.  There’s plenty of Brown there, and you can see quite a lot of Blue too.</p> <p> I am curious though as to why during Apollo 8 when asked what The Moon looks like the response was "The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish deep sand". <a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS08_TEC.PDF">Page 361</a> </p> <p> Which is one of the reasons that Alan Bean's art (Apollo 12 moon walker) has always confused me - <a href="http://www.alanbeangallery.com">why does he paint</a> The Moon Brown? Seems like now I know, but that Apollo 8 statement was odd to say the least. </p><img src="http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/aggbug/6.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Peter Morris http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/archive/2009/06/27/what-colour-is-the-moon.aspx Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:28:47 GMT http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/comments/6.aspx http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/archive/2009/06/27/what-colour-is-the-moon.aspx#feedback 1 http://blog.peterlesliemorris.com/comments/commentRss/6.aspx