Moonshine. (coherent backscattering responsible for full moon's brightness) From: Discover | Date: August 1, 1993 | COPYRIGHT 1993 Discover. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

A FULL MOON, ODDLY ENOUGH--here's a fun fact to impress your sweetie with at your next nocturnal tryst--is about ten times brighter than two half-moons. How so? For more than 100 years astronomers have blamed something called shadow hiding. When the moon isn't full, the argument goes, lunar soil particles cast countless tiny shadows, reducing the light reflected to Earth. But when Earth, moon, and sun are nearly aligned, we no longer see these shadows; we see the whole lunar surface reflecting sunlight straight at us, and hence a full moon that is brighter than the sum of its ...

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