0
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What are the dark spots and the light areas on the moon called?
Reforming
What are the light spots of the moon called?
The light spots on the moon are called lunar highlands. These areas are elevated and tend to reflect more sunlight, appearing brighter than the darker regions known as lunar maria.
What are the dark spots and light areas on the moon called?
The dark spots on the moon are called lunar maria, which are large plains formed by ancient volcanic activity. The lighter areas are called highlands, which are rugged and densely cratered regions of the moon's surface.
What was the moon named after?
The moon is named after the Roman Goddess of the moon, Luna.
Why does it look like there are spots on the moon?
They are the craters on the moon, caused by the impact of meteorites.
Who named the spots on the moon?
theodore roosevelt x hope this helps
What are the dark spots and the light areas on the moon called?
Reforming
What are the light spots of the moon called?
The light spots on the moon are called lunar highlands. These areas are elevated and tend to reflect more sunlight, appearing brighter than the darker regions known as lunar maria.
What are the dark spots and light areas on the moon called?
The dark spots on the moon are called lunar maria, which are large plains formed by ancient volcanic activity. The lighter areas are called highlands, which are rugged and densely cratered regions of the moon's surface.
Why is moon having spots?
The spots are craters left over from meteors that hit the moon.
How does the moon look?
The moon is a sphere about one- seventh of the earth's size. It has dark spots and bright spots and craters.
What was the moon named after?
The moon is named after the Roman Goddess of the moon, Luna.
Why there are the dark spots on the moon?
craters
How were the dark spots on the moon formed?
i think when the moon cooled down.
What appears as dark spots in a lunar eclipse?
Dark spots on the moon during a lunar eclipse are caused by the Earth blocking direct sunlight from reaching the moon. These dark spots are the shadow of the Earth falling on the moon's surface, which gives the moon its reddish appearance during a total lunar eclipse.
What are the bright spots called that occur as the moon covers the sun?
The lighter parts on the moon are mountains and highlands. They are more visible as they are at higher elevations. The darker parts are lunar maria, basins cut out by ancient lava flows. They have less craters than the highlands, as the lunar maria were formed after the time period where the most lunar impacts occurred.
How did the gray spots on the moon get there?
by craters in space
