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Why is the moon red?

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The moon appears red during a lunar eclipse. When the Earth moves between the Moon and the Sun, it cuts off the Moon's light supply. When sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, the colors in the sunlight scatter. During a lunar eclipse, the red and orange light from the sun gets refracted through Earth's atmosphere to the moon which makes the moon look red. This phenomenon is called Rayleigh Scattering.

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