Question

The shadow’s on the moon’s surface are due to ______.

Answer 1

Hint: Moon is an astronomical body that orbits around the Earth and it completes one full orbit around the Earth in one whole month. It is the only natural satellite of Earth. It has no significant atmosphere or magnetic field and has a rocky silicate composition.

Complete answer:The moonlight that we see at night on Earth is nothing but the sunlight that is reflected from the surface of the moon as the moon does not produce any light of its own. The light is reflected off volcanoes, craters, etc. The shadows that are produced on the surface of the moon are similar to the shadows that are produced on Earth. Whenever light strikes an object, it blocks the light and produces a darker image in the opposite direction in which the light was coming from, this is known as a shadow. So, when the sunlight strikes the surface of the moon and the light is reflected Earth appears as moonlight, there are shadows created on the moon due to the moon itself. These shadows can be of volcanoes, mountains, and craters on the surface of the moon.

Note: The moon has a surface gravity of one-sixth of that of Earth. The diameter of the moon is 3478 km which is one-fourth of that of Earth. The gravitational influence of the moon causes the tidal movement on Earth.