Crossword-Solution: EARTHSHINE
We have 5 clues for the answer “EARTHSHINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Faint illumination of the moon's dark side | 1 answer |
| Glow during the moon's crescent phase | 1 answer |
| Light reflected onto the moon | 1 answer |
| CRESCENT MOON END | 10 answers |
| CRESCENT MOON, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with EARTHSHINE (5)
Presently it would float as Joe dreamed of it, and where the sun struck it, it would be unbearably bright, and where there were shadows, they would be abysmally black--except, perhaps, when earthshine from the planet below would outline it in a ghostly fashion.
Shaler, who examined the crater when it was illuminated only by earthshine, with the fine 15-inch telescope of the Harvard Observatory (Cambridge U.S.), says that he has been able to recognise nearly all the craters over 15 miles in diameter in the dark part.
The explanation is, however, more prosaic, because the mountain is really brought into view by earthshine on its bright covering.
The ancients were greatly exercised in their minds to account for this "earthlight," or "earthshine," as it is also called.
Another type of suspected change is associated with the neighbourhood of Aristarchus, the brightest formation on the Moon, so bright indeed that Sir William Herschel, observing it when illuminated by earthshine in the dark portion of the Moon, thought that he was watching a lunar volcano in eruption.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2005–2014).