A blood moon is a non-scientific description of the Moon's sometimes-rusty color when it goes through ... enough to let some light through. The thin layer of gas refracts some of that light ...

Sunlight passing through the thick layers of the Earth’s ... This process—also responsible for the colors of sunrises and sunsets—results in the moon appearing deep red or orange during ...

Advertisement Advertisement But the moon did not vanish from the sky entirely. Bright white sunlight contains all of the colors of the ... A thin layer of clouds cover a total lunar eclipse ...