Earthshine is seen for a few days before and after the New Moon.
Look out at dawn on days before New Moon, and at dusk on days after New Moon.
At the time of the crescent Moon, we can also see the unlit part of the Moon’s surface as a beautiful glow. This is Earthshine or the ‘Da Vinci glow’ because Leonardo da Vinci researched and solved the phenomenon in the 16th Century.
Why do we see Earthshine on the Moon?
The light of the Sun is shining onto the Earth and reflecting back to the Moon.
If we were standing on the Moon, the Full Earth would illuminate the lunar landscape, just as the Full Moon illuminates our landscape, here on Earth.
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