Re: Temprature on Moon Surface

From: Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:04:22 GMT

George wrote:

Since Moon does not have atmosphere so an astronaut standing on its surface would experience very hot under his feet but his nose would be freezing is that how it goes, even if the surface is experiencing direct sunlight which heats up the surface, but it must be loosing pretty fast.

  Mean surface temperature (day)     107°C
  Mean surface temperature (night)  -153°C
  Maximum surface temperature        123°C
  Minimum surface temperature       -233°C
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