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What causes the moon to appear a different colour during a lunar eclipse?

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What causes the moon to appear a different colour during a lunar eclipse?

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The light you see on the Moon, when it is in its totality phase, is light refracted from the Earth’s atmosphere. Since refraction acts different on different wavelengths (or frequencies), red light gets diffracted more, so the Moon looks redder than usual.