A small hut obvious deflection in the direction signifying heat was at once observed, and when the observation had been repeated several times with the same result, no doubt could remain. We actually receive an appreciable proportion of our warmth supply from " the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon.
And one of the most interesting of these results which have followed from the inquiry confirms in an equally striking manner anotlier guess which Sir John Herschel had made. By comparing the heat received from the moon with that obtained from several terrestrial sources. Lord Rosse has been led to the conclusion that at the time of full moon the surface of our satellite is raised to a temperature exceeding by more than Fahrenheit that of boiling water. Sir John Herschel long since asserted that this-must be so.
During the long lunar day, lasting some of-our hours, the sun's rays are poured without intermission upon the lunar surface. No clouds temper the heat, no atmosphere even serves to inter pose any resistance to the continual down-pour of the fierce solar rays. And for about the space of three of our days the sun hangs suspended close to the zenith of the lunar sky, so that if there were inhabitants on our unfortunate satellite, they would be scorched for more than seventy consecutive hours by an almost vertical Sim.
There is only one point in Lord Rosse's inquiry which seems doubtful. That we receive heat from the moon he has shown conclusively, and there can be no doubt that a large portion of this heat is radiated from the moon. But there is another mode by which the heat may be sent to us from the moon, and it might be worth while to inquire a little more closely than has yet been done whether the larger share of the heat rendered sensible by the great mirror may not have come in this way.
We refer to the moon's power of reflecting heat. It need hardly be said that the reflection and the radiation of heat are very different matters. Let any one hold a burnished metal plate in such a way that the sun's light is reflected towards his face, and he will feel that with the light a considerable amount of heat is refiected.
Let him leave the same metal in the sun until it is well warmed, and he will find that the metal is capable of imparting heat to him when it is removed from the sun's rays. This is radiation, and cannot happen unless the metal has been warmed, whereas heat can be reflected from an ice-cold plate. There has been nothing in the experiments conducted by Lord Rosse to show by which of these two processes the moon's heat is principally sent to.
We do not mention this point from any desire to cavil at the results of one of the most interesting experiments which have recently been carried out. I got spanked last night, I can still feel the effects of the moon burn. I attended the moonburn party in North Hollywood. Moon burn. Moon burn effects is opposite of sun burn.
When you get Sun burn you become dark or darker. Melanin absorbs ultraviolet radiation, thereby protecting the skin's cells. So the more ultraviolet light, the more at risk skin is. Why the moonlight doesn't make people tan is because sunlight reaching Earth via the moon just doesn't have enough ultraviolet oomph to trigger the skin's defensive shield. Even though a full moon may look really bright, the surface of the moon is actually pretty dark.
The moon absorbs most of the sunlight that hits it. Of course, some of the sun's reflected ultraviolet light does reach us. Theoretically, prolonged exposure to moonlight could cause some damage. In this case "prolonged" means hundreds of years of continuous moon bathing.
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