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on Twitter If the Moon’s up, go take a look and see what color
it is. If you’re looking during the daylight, the Moon will look
faint and white surrounded by the blue of the sky. If it’s
night, the Moon will look bright yellow. Why does the color the
Moon seem to change from white to yellow when you go from day to
night. And why does the Moon look gray in many photographs,
especially the ones from space? What color is the Moon? The
photographs of the Moon, taken from space are the best true-
color views of the Moon. That gray color you see comes from the
surface of the Moon which is mostly oxygen, silicon, magnesium,
iron, calcium and aluminum. The lighter color rocks are usually
plagioclase feldspar, while the darker rocks are pyroxene. Most
of the rocks that you can see are volcanic, and were extruded
from the inside of the Moon during volcanic eruptions. Some rare
rocks called olivine are actually green. The dark regions you
see on the Moon ar