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- Gaze up at a brilliant Moon in the night sky and it’s hard to imagine that our companion world, Earth’s last high wilderness, is actually a rather dark and grimy place. The lunar albedo (fractional reflectivity) is only about 0.12 – in other words, over the visible spectrum, it reflects a mere 12% of the light hitting it, absorbing the rest.
Caleb Sharf is a very good science writer - clearly written, easy-to-follow prose. Meanwhile, Lunar Albedo sounds like the name of a detective in a sci-fi mystery series (maybe the next hubski storyclub story): "Lunar Albedo reflected on the clues available. He seemed to have barely 12% of the information necessary to solve the murder. That's probably all he'd ever have."