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Why is the mooon white

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When the moon is up in the sky during the daylight, it reflects all sunlight equally and the reflected light not being scattered enough, the moon appears white during the day. Now, during the day the moon has to compete with sunlight, whose color is also scattered by the atmosphere, so it looks white

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