INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
its usual livery of pearly gray.According to N
Raghunandan, director, Planetary Society of India, there is no credence to the claim that the moon would appear blue in colour or larger
Scientifically speaking, the moon does appear blue in colour when there is particulate matter or pollutant of the right size suspended in
This, when comes in contact with the light, it refracts and appears blue, he said.That may or may not happen on Saturday.According to the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), there have been instances in the past when people in several parts of the world did
But each time, it was associated with a volcanic explosion that threw up dust miles high into the sky and these ash particles from the
volcanoes which reflect red light, allowed the blue light from the spectrum reach the earth resulting in visibility of a blue coloured
reports of people seeing the moon in this colour following eruptions of Mt St Helens (USA) in 1980 and Mt Pinatubo (Phillipines) in
rare opportunity to watch a full moon twice in a calendar month.Social media is abuzz with misinformation of the moon, and its colour on
For us it is just another Pournami (full moon)
