Moon albedo, calculated from visible sun and moon brightness ratio is around 0.07. So it reflects only 7% of light. I'ts pretty bad, really. Charcoal reflects 4%, for example. White paper reflects around 90%. Usual river sand have around 50%
Moon surface is only twice brighter than charcoal and 7 times darker than river sand. Pretty black thing I could say.
It is too easy to calculate, so hardly Kubrik, being perfectionist would have been fucked up with such simple thing. Color of moon surface on NASA color images is correct. It have to be kind of nearly black sand or dust to appear in our sky as we see it.
If moon had something like river sand as surface, it would have been 7 times brighter in full moon night, which is still far from sunlight, but already enough to read.
Moon albedo, calculated from visible sun and moon brightness ratio is around 0.07. So it reflects only 7% of light. I'ts pretty bad, really. Charcoal reflects 4%, for example. White paper reflects around 90%. Usual river sand have around 50%
Moon surface is only twice brighter than charcoal and 7 times darker than river sand. Pretty black thing I could say.
It is too easy to calculate, so hardly Kubrik, being perfectionist would have been fucked up with such simple thing. Color of moon surface on NASA color images is correct. It have to be kind of nearly black sand or dust to appear in our sky as we see it.
If moon had something like river sand as surface, it would have been 7 times brighter in full moon night, which is still far from sunlight, but already enough to read.