NATGEO  |  Science

A purple moon? See 48 stunning lunar hues

Through her range of images, Marcella Giulia Pace shows how Earth’s atmospheric blanket affects the way we see the moon.

2024-04-15    

When, for example, Pace photographs the moon through the densest air—as it rises and as it sits just above the horizon—this phenomenon is especially intense, glowing more red or orange. Other materials in the atmosphere—water droplets, dust, wildfire smoke—also influence the path of light and affect the moon’s hue, and those colors are specific to the suspended materials themselves.

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