earthlight
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9.2
Light from Earth makes a faint glow on the moon's dark side
- noun
- /ˈɜrθˌlaɪt/
- Specialized
:
luz terrestre
- The crater floor glittered and shimmered in the earthlight.
Examples
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It undulated up and away, a fabric bat in the shaft of earthlight, ending up pinned by acceleration to the ceiling.
Fiction book (2000) -
Outside the airlock, only earthlight eased the darkness.
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Outside the airlock, only earthlight eased the darkness.
Fiction book (1995) -
The faint glow of earthlight illuminated the dark side of the moon.
Synonyms
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7.2
A faint light on the moon's dark part that comes from sunlight bouncing off Earth
is the same phenomenon and is simply an alternative name
Surface Forms
earthlight singular
earthlights plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word earthlight comes from the two simple words earth and light, and it names the faint glow on the dark part of the Moon. So earthlight is the soft light you see when sunlight is 'bounced' off Earth and lights the Moon's shadowed side.