Is the temperature of the lunar surface the same at different points on the lunar disk?
September 19, 2020 | Education
| The temperature of the lunar surface will depend on the height of the sun above the horizon. At a full moon, for an observer in the center of the visible disk of the Moon, the Sun is at its zenith and the surface temperature is highest – more than 100 oC, at the edges, where the Sun is near the horizon, frost, the temperature is below -50 oC. By analogy, one can estimate the surface temperature from the lunar disk and for other lunar phases.
