siliconshaman: black cat against the moon (Default)
siliconshaman ([personal profile] siliconshaman) wrote in [personal profile] kengr 2019-10-09 07:52 am (UTC)

You're probably right about albedo being higher, but the moon would have biosphere and that too would modify it. I suspect the contrast would be higher, the oceans would be brighter, the land darker.

Although, i'm boggling at what sort of adaptations the plant life would have to cope with the lunar night... 28 days with no light...I'm guessing they might work like high arctic plant life and go into hibernation. The atmosphere being thinner would offer less insulation so it would be cold at night, cold enough to freeze probably.

Bioluminescence would probably become a big thing too among the animal life. Maybe some of the plants would develop carnivorous habits, sort of like sundews or pitcher plants but scaled up, using the animal life as a energy source during the long night.

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