Expert: Ed - 5/20/2007

Question
What color is the moon? Do you know of a book or website to support your answer?

Answer
Jon,

The moon is basically gray.  It has different shades of gray, ranging from whitish-gray to darker gray.  If you scroll down a little on this website, you will find a good quote from the astronaut Buzz Aldrin about the color of the moon.  He should know -- he was there!

http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2001-12-14/asd/column.html

If this is for a school report, you should say in your footnote that you got the information from Buzz Aldrin's log, kept on the Apollo moon landing flight in July 1969.

Here is a very good NASA website, about strange optical effects that we can experience when observing the moon.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/28sep_strangemoonlight.htm

I hope this is helpful.  Keep Looking Up!
--Ed