I’ve read that a lunar eclipse is what makes the moon appear red in the sky, because only light of certain wave lengths passing through our atmosphere. Would it also be red when viewed not from earth? It would still be the same light reaching it but bouncing back to our eyes not through the atmosphere. I’m not sure I’ve fully understood, I’d very much appreciate a science lesson. Thanks
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[This is the eclipse](https://c.tadst.com/gfx/1200×675/total-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon.png?1) and this is [how it looks from the Moon](https://i.insider.com/55f581dbbd86ef1e008b9f11?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp), and the light that reaches the Moon is red because our sky is blue (that is, the air scatters the blue color up and down (to the surface) and sideways, basically preventing it from continuing on towards the Moon, so only the more reddish colors continue past the atmosphere to hit the Moon).
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