16. What does the Moon look like up close? (A K2S Question)

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The astronauts who have been to the Moon say that up close it is a light gray, almost a cinder color. There are colored glasses on the Moon, as well, including green, orange, and black. The color seems to correlate to the titanium content of the glass. The Moon is covered in craters, mountains, valleys and great plains, called Maria. Since the Moon has no atmosphere it's possible to see objects and spacecraft very clearly on the lunar surface. http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/dataviz/vrml/moonv.html (See CDROM)

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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