What Color Is The Moon?
[MUSIC] What color is the moon? I asked you all this question and got some
very interesting answers. Silver like aluminum white, like the color of clouds Chalky, like ash silver, kind of like an old coin gray like pavement silver like your mother’s hair milky chalk gray like a used eraser white, like a diamond But among all the varied responses and interesting
comparisons, you all pretty much agreed: The moon is a very light color, something
like this. But what if i told you it was actually more like this [MUSIC] When our brains are trying to figure out what color something is the first thing we do is try to figure out how bright it is. This side of the apple looks like a brighter color than the side away from the light, we can see that is so, but our brains are able to take this lighting into account and we know that the whole apple is the same red. If a car drives out of a dark tunnel, we don’t assume the car magically changed color, because our brains correct
for differences in all the light in whatever scene we’re looking at. But that doesn’t always work so well. Here’s a white square No, here’s a white square. No, here’s a white square Wait a second, what is going on here? All these squares are the same. And you may have seen this famous illusion before.
The two lettered squares are actually the same color. Even when the light in a scene doesn’t change,
the colors surrounding an object can also trick our brains. If you stare at the center
of this image, between the yellow and blue bars, the tiny squares look like different
colors, but they’re not. If our brains could make an absolute measurement
of light passing through our pupils, maybe we wouldn’t be tricked by these illusions.
But we can’t do that, our eyes aren’t cameras or light meters or that little eyedropper
tool in Photoshop. As far as our brains are concerned, it’s
not what color something is, it’s what color something appears to be. Which brings us back to the moon.
The full moon gives enough light that it can even cast shadows on the ground on a dark night here on Earth. But it only looks so blindingly bright in the night sky because there’s
nothing else nearby it to compare to, except the night sky itself. Instead of measuring the absolute number and wavelength of photons the moon gives off, our eyes and brains compare the relative amounts of light given off by two or more objects
within our field of view. Consider these shapes. The smaller rectangles
in the center are the same color, but since the *relative* difference between the two
top shapes is greater, the small rectangle *appears* brighter up top. The lightest object in a scene becomes a sort
of anchor, our brains say “that’s white”, So how bright is the moon? Not that bright. The moon only reflects about
13% of the light that hits its surface. But in the night sky, against the dark blackness of space, it’s the brightest thing we can see, so our brains tell us “that’s
white”. But if we viewed the moon next to Earth, under
the same illumination, it would be a very dark gray, almost like an asphalt road. In
fact, you can see this dark gray color in photos taken on the Moon during the Apollo
missions. Compared to a white spacesuit, suddenly the moon doesn’t seem as bright, does it? I hope you’ve enjoyed this little mind-bender,
and that next time you look up at the moon, you don’t see it in exactly the same light. Remember, the eye and mind work together
in mysterious ways, and… “Colours, seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.” Stay curious.
The moon is Flicts
it's fucking gray
Am I the only one or are these different colors? ( 1:47 )
NASA just admitted that they have never been on the moon
everyone is wrong the color of the moon is obviously 64 duh!
The orange squares are different colors.
Just slightly.
sorry, but at 1:30 he shows the illusion effect, but, i have looked at the individual tiles individually without taking into account the shadows and whatnot, using photoshop to cut them out, and they are NOT the same,, its an illusion of an illusion, basically a troll lol.
The moon is 50 shades of Gray
The moon is the color of the moon
Is that why you wear black and gray in this video?
The moon can be pink
WOW
Stop judging the moon……he can be what ever he wants
do u know there is a diamond planet in the universe
1:28 My life is ruined…
one dark floating boi
My mother has no white hair😐😡
Interesting approach to the problem, but I postulate that the moon is actually more of an Infrared colour.
It only gives of a strong reflection of bright light at night, when compared to the surroundings like you said.
But I believe the moon still gives off a very subtle radiation of photons in the infrared spectrum.
But hey, I'm no scientist. 😉
In the day sometimes it appears and it is still light gray
Joe, why the moon appears at night
THE MOON IS BLACK NOT GREY OR WHITE
1:46 actually they are diferent colors or am i just the only person that sees extra colors? Hehe
What we all would identify as orange or blue may be totally different from each other I could be seeing light pink in your eyes but we both still call it maybe orange .who knows…. maybe that’s why we all prefer a color and why it’s not as appealing to others
I'm calling Bullshit
Check out the ebook The Moon In Colour, very interesting little book, a real eye opener.
Its white
You need to lift. You are a low T manlet
bravo!!!!
okok I believe all of that, but the last square in those 5 squares is definitely a different shade.It's a more solid color for sure.
Again
Yellow.
Is a diamond really white?
Yup, I'm becoming an Astronamer or Astronaut.
Yellow coz it's made out of cheese
I have a question
…
Are we making the world better by having more living creatures?
This video is Jayman approved!
Oof
What about when you see the moon in daytime? I’ve seen it in the sky next to clouds and the blue sky and it was still white-ash
there was an interview of neil armstrong after they came back from the moon walk mission(s) on british tv. the moon, according to him actually is multi-colored and what colors you see is dependent on where the sun is and where you are in relation to the moon. you do not see much of the other colors due to our distance.
With is the dress
WE WUZ KANGZ
1 week
The moon is white mix with grey
our moon is white because its kind of like a star
make out of asteroids far long ago when it was created when theia and earth collided
Nice experiment, but its not about the actual color? “A lot of people” say it has green parts, but that gets filtered out by earth atmospere.
bruh u got me trippin
Today the moon yellow
The music used in the end of this video, the “Pizzicato Polka” made me smile. :~)
if we could see ultra violet light would it be a new color?
Yeah well what color is the earth.
The color is white
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What
My uncle worked at NASA he said the moon is purple.
He is color blind…
The moon is an artificial satellite
The moon reflex's the light from the sun ,if u say its grey or dark grey ,then why does it turn red,green ,orange and so on ,why, and in a solar eclipse ,it becomes black ,so how can u say its dark grey
grey… just as every moonrock there is.
Im familiar with the color of moon dust samples, but ignoring that, whats the color? Not in comparison to Earth, but its own Pantone value. That'd be the awesome answer!
So basically our brains and eyes are lazy?
Makes sense
Excellent topic!
Another very important reason why the moon seems brighter than it really is, is that it is in vastly more full-on sunlight than anything we ever get to see on the surface of the Earth!
Makes me remember Ancient Greek only have color names for bright and dark. And bright became white.
Like in Leukos and Lux (white in Greek and light in Latin have similar sounds)
Not a fruitful vedio..
7 and a half.
Moon (sassy woman’s voice): “ ‘scuse me y’all, did u just assume my color”
The A and B square thing is right though. The way my brain should perceive it is a light color shaded and a dark color lit. The brain isn't trying to identify the actual color, but the origin color while taking lighting into consideration. If my brain actually did see the two as the same color my ability to interpret the physical world would be fucked.
the moon is yellow
why does it look orange sometimes?
If you want to see the color of the moon, Go to my channel. Enough of the kindergarten nonsense.
Is it really so dark? I don't think so. If you watch the Moon during the day, it seems to be way brighter than the surrounding blue sky. So, it shouldn't be darker than the Earth…
The rocks are white in sun light, the dust and small rocks are reddish brown similar to mars. The Chinese Change mission found this and there are photographs
The color of the moon it is the same as the colores of our light and there is two moons one you can see and the other one you can I could prove it with a dimane I found
Yellow! It’s made of cheese 🙂
Of course he wears a grey shirt for this video
ok, but why does moon look white(ish) during day too?
We never went to the moon
I popped my eyes together with the cartoon moon
The moon is white other colours bc the sun
Did you google this
Random haters disliked..😆😂🤣
They can hate anything & everything & these are the people dislike every video as a part of their sincere job 😝😛😜 (dedicated & dignified though)
I thought it was gonna be like neon purple or something XD
Black, look at a lunar olivine sample.
1:46 but when you show them next to each other, the left looks darker.
Gray, like my life jk.
I can't trust this
Come on it’s ultraviolet obviously
At 1:46 it isn't the same color. So either I'm tetrachromatic (I think so) or it's a not so good illusion.
I like it
But I thought that moon was gray(not white) from the age of 4.
Offensive, like you
whaaaat I've always thought the moon was space grey
I guess I'm an intellectual
Oh right, so when we illuminate an apple we get a brightspot, but when we illumunate a moon we don't get a bright spot. Got it.
Cool and i like the moon🔔
Aah yes, the completely grey soil shown on all Apollo landings. Strange that years later China's Chang e' 3 lander showed the Moon's soil was mainly shades of brown and orange with very little grey. All the Apollo hardware and astronauts were in bright technicolour, yet the soil was completely grey, which NASA knew the public would accept as correct. Visit www.aulis.com to see articles by scientists from around the world proving the Apollo lunar landings were faked.
answer : same color as my life
Also the moon from space is darker than on earth cuz of the earths atmosphere
The super blood moon is out tonight july 18 2019
1:46 it still looks different to me tbh
A shadow given on a dark night lol
the white squares example is bs. they gradually change to the same color.
Baaaa……Baaaa….