If Moonlight is just the Sun’s light reflecting off the moon, and when Sunlight passes through the atmosphere it turns yellow, why does the daytime Moon look white?

Question

I know that in space the Sun looks white, but still.

In: Physics

Answer 1

In daytime sun also look white, its only in evening and morning sun look orange or reddish, because red light has highest wavelength in visible range so it scatters less. With enough scattering, almost all of the shorter wavelengths can be removed from the original beam of sunlight. This turns the unscattered light orange or red