Moon's reflection is diffuse or regular reflection?

Answer 1

The Sun. We see a bright Moon only when the Sun is shining on the side that is facing us. This changes as the Moon orbits us, giving us different phases of the Moon and times where we can't see it at all.

Answer 2

Light reflects off the moon by hitting the it from the sun. This light wave bounces into earth. When there is no moon, it means that the earth is blocking the sun from the moon and no light can get through.

Answer 3

This "reflection" thing has confused a lot of people.

The whole point is that the moon doesn't shine with its own light;
so you can't see it unless there is something to light it up.

Forget about the sun for a moment. The sun goes away, and it's dark.
You can see other stars, because they shine with their own light, like light bulbs.
But you can't see the moon or planets, because they're just stones and cold gas-bags.

Now someone comes along and turns on a gigantic flashlight, and sweeps it around to see what's there.
NOW you can see the moon, because the flashlight is shining on it.

OK ?

The sun is the flashlight.
With a battery that will last another several billion years.
Longer than the bunny.

Answer 4

it sounds strange, when stated that way but, 'reflected', here does not mean as a mirror's reflection...

anything that you see is reflecting light, and the color you perceive is the wavelengths of light that are being reflected (the colors you do not see have been absorbed by the object's surface...)

The colors of the spectrum, or rainbow, when all seen together are perceived as white light

Conversely, when you see no colors (all wavelengths being absorbed) you see black...

So... the white light, or color of the moon is all colors being reflected

Answer 5

Badly. The albedo of the Moon is about 0.05, which means that the Moon is about as reflective as charcoal. But the Moon still shines brilliantly by sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface, which merely indicates how BRIGHT the sunlight was to begin with!

Answer 6

The suns light reflects onto the moon and that light shines on the Earth

Answer 7

The light from our sun is reflected back to earth via the moon.

Answer 8

If you are asking about the light that suffuses the darkened portion of a moon that is not full, that is "earthlight", or sunlight that is reflected by the earth illuminating the moon.

Answer 9

Diffuse. The Moon is about the color of a giant charcoal briquette and only reflects about 4% of the incident light, and it scatters what little it reflects.