Diamond Fine Jewelry Moonlight
It shines with lots of glass on its surface. I think that could only have been
by design, to make it reflective upon the earth, relaying
the sun's rays and 'softened' into what we call 'moonlight'.
But 'if' it was made of earth, what is your opinion about why
it would just happen to have glass on its surface, which would
be a convenient 'accident' seeing as how it gives light to us
at night.
If you read what I wrote carefully, you will see that I was talking
about the quality of the moonlight, which is reflective, but "soft".
Many factors contribute to the kind of light that is reflected.
Certain surfaces of certain satellites have low reflectivity, the
surface being as dark as the darkest regions of the moon.
Deimos, which is the very smaller of the two moons of Mars
has such a dark surface. One of the reasons is that it is
absolutely pock-marked with craters....though not so much as
Phobos. Some think that Deimos is a captured asteroid.
The moon's surface is 40 - 50% silica, by weight, which is
comparable to earth's. Two of the most notable kinds of
surfaces on the moon that are distinct: "highlands", and
"seas". The highlands though very bright take up some
83% of the surface of the Moon. The seas have been
called "maria" (which is Latin for seas) and are the darker,
smoother, and form the other 17%. On our Moon, the
reflective areas are the rougher, and these highlands are
heavily cratered supposedly by big meteoroids, asteroids
hitting the Moon's surface. Now, these giant depressions
formed basins, which were flooded with lava, thus turning
them into the "marias". I knew that the depressed areas
were darker, and you can look at the moon and tell that.
I knew that glass was produced - so they think - by asteroids
and things crashing into the moon. But I had thought there
was a lot of peridot colored substance on the surface, which,
when mixed with the bluish glow from the earth, produce the
quality of color of moonlight that our own earth has, which is
a soft kind of glow. The quality, further of roundish stones
of glass would further diffuse light, possibly producing a
softened glow, the way cabochons cast off reflected light.
Peridot is the light green semi-precious gemstone produced
where there is volcanic lava, but it is a beryl, and I do not
know that the green stones are anything but regular glass.
They made me think of that though. When Diamond Head
got it's name, in Hawaii, it was because it twinkled like
diamonds. Come to find out, it was because of the
presence of peridot, the form called olivine which was
picked up by people and made into jewelry. I have some
in this roundish form.