Page 121 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

If you were standing on the Moon, for instance, where there is no atmosphere, you would see the
stars both day and night.
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Kornreich has kept his answer simple, where a layman can understand it. As light from the sun
passes through the Earth’s atmosphere it encounters atoms and molecules formed primarily from
Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. Contact with our atmosphere causes light to be scattered in all
directions. As when light passes through a prism, it is separated into various wavelengths. The
shorter blue wavelengths are scattered more profusely which is why the sky looks blue during the
daytime. This scattered blue light appears brighter than the faint light of the stars beyond and
prevents us from seeing the stars during the daytime. In effect, it is not the brilliance of the Sun
which prevents us from seeing the stars in the sky. Rather, it is the light scattering properties of the
Earth’s atmosphere that causes this effect.

Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere, this scattering of light does not occur. The sky would
not appear blue from the Moon. It would appear black while the stars and planets would appear much
brighter and clearer than they do even on the darkest night on Earth. It is this obscuring effect of the
Earth’s atmosphere that has led to most Earth based observatories being located at high elevations
atop mountains. The densest atmosphere is at lower elevations, nearer to sea level. By rising above
this densest part of the atmosphere, terrestrial astronomers are able to get views of the heavens that
are far more brilliant and clear than they would be able to obtain at lower elevations.

Mountain View of the Milky Way

Views of the stars from the lunar surface would far surpass the very best view from Earth. Without
an atmosphere to block, absorb, or scatter light, each star would appear far more brilliant, and many
more stars would be visible. Having such an unprecedented opportunity to take photographic images
of the heavens from the lunar surface, one must ask why the astronauts never thought to do so. Yet
even more startling is that the astronauts should say they could not see any stars in the lunar sky

On one of NASA’s own webpages, they have admitted that stars would be visible in the daytime sky
from the Earth if we had no atmosphere. This would be true of astronauts standing on the surface of