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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A feeble light of the dark part of the Moon's disk produced by the solar light reflected by the Earth, including its atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The phenomenon known as Earthshine is reflected Earthlight visible on the Moon's night side. It is also known as the Moon's "ashen glow" or "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms."
Earthshine is most readily observable shortly before and after a new Moon. When the Moon is new as viewed from Earth, the Earth is fully lit up as viewed from the Moon. Sunlight is reflected from the Earth to the night side of the Moon. The night side appears to glow faintly and the entire orb of the Moon is dimly visible.
Earthshine is used to help determine the current albedo of the Earth. The data are used to analyze global weather phenomena. Oceans reflect the least amount of light, roughly 10%. Land reflects anywhere from 10-25% of the Sun's light, and clouds reflect around 50%. So, the half of the Earth where it is daytime determines how bright the Moon's Earthshine appears at any given time.
See also: André-Louis Danjon, Danjon scale.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Earthshine."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earthshine | 6 |
earthshine candle | 5 |
earthshine lodge mountain | 3 |
earthshine lodge | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "EARTHSHINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bojë hiri (ashen, cinereous, earthlight, Gray, grey, sand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mìsíèní svit (earthlight, moonlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | jordskin (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | asgrauw schijnsel (earth light, earth shine, earthlight), aardlicht (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maapallon hohdevalo (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | clair de Terre (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erdschein (earth light, earth shine, earthlight), Erdlicht (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γήινη φωταύγεια (earth light, earth shine, earthlight), φως της γης (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | föld visszfénye a holdon (earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chiaro di Terra (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earthshineay luz terrestre (earth light, earth shine, earthlight), brilho terrestre (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) пепельный свет (earthlight). (various references) zemljin sjaj (earthlight). (various references) luz terrestre (earth light, earth shine, earthlight), claro de Tierra (earth light, earth shine, earthlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "EARTHSHINE": earthshines. (additional references) | |
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"EARTHSHINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: earthshrinker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EARTHSHINE" (pronounced er"thshī'n) |
| 3 | -sh ī' n | moonshine, shoeshine, sunshine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: herniates. | |
-2 letters: arenites, arsenite, ensheath, etherish, hairnets, hastener, heartens, hearties, heathens, heathers, heathier, herniate, inearths, insheath, resinate, sheather, stearine, trainees. | |
-3 letters: aeriest, aethers, anestri, anthers, antsier, arenite, earnest, earthen, eastern, entires, entries, etesian, ethanes, hairnet, harshen, hastier, hearten, hearths, heaters, heathen, heather, heister, henries, herniae, hernias, hinters, inearth, inheres, nastier, nearest, neither, ratines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: earthshines. | |
+3 letters: ethnographies, nephropathies. | |
+4 letters: asthenospheric, hypnotherapies. | |
+5 letters: chronotherapies, dichloroethanes, phenylthioureas, phosphocreatine, trihalomethanes. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E A R T H S H I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0041 0052 0054 0048 0053 0048 0049 004E 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39355254425342434839 |
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