Lunar Surface

[irizarry]

Question:

If I were standing on the lunar surface and looking down at my boots what colors would I see.
Rephrased- What are the true colors and textures of the lunar surface (Its not black and white like in the pictures)?

[K6-III]

Depends on which pictures you're looking at. Some have them as various shades of grey, where others have some brown mixed in as well...

[budcamp]

What color boots are you wearing?

[K6-III]

I was thinking of the lunar regolith....

Good one budcamp!!!

[irizarry]

bud camp great answer, I enjoyed that one!

My intentions are to build a diorama of the lunar surface for a friend. I have read Apollo era articles about the lunar surface and many articles indicate red rocks and blue crystals in the regolith. I want the diorama to be a good replica. If anyone has references I can look at please foward.

Keep those crafty answers comings.. I'm still laughing about the boot!

[caolan]

If you were on the moon and you were able to see your boots, the sun would be shining in which case you would probably fry before you had a chance to see the color of your boots, from the deadly "cosmic radiation" Nasa refuses to admit exists.

[budcamp]

Caolan

How did you establish the existance of, 'the deadly "cosmic radiation" Nasa refuses to admit exists?'

[timeshifter]

So, tell me this: How do we have film of people on the moon? If the sun really did smoke anything on the moon that it met, then how did we get those films?

[irizarry]

Yes there is lethal radiation in space-however it is analogous to Earth weather. Some of this radiation is due to solar flares. The intense ones are not always there. NASA monitors this (these falling and rising fluxes) and times its extravehicular activity in accordance with opportunity. There is also the space vehicle – it supplies some shielding.
Not to mention the spacesuit. Early space exploration was concerned with this environment and still is.

Here is a story that may shed a useful analogy that someone told me and I don’t know where they found it.

For years there was this person who proclaimed the moon was made out of blue cheese.
One day the astronauts landed on the moon and brought back numerous rock samples. When confronted with this evidence the person replied, “This is what happens when you leave blue cheese out for too long!”

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