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Old 29-June-2002, 02:50 AM
Joe Durnavich Joe Durnavich is offline
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No source for this figure [moon's albedo 7%] was provided

Jay, so that somebody doesn't throw this back at you, I am going to repeat a post I made on the Apollo Hoax Forum. Are the figures I quote here obsolete?

What is the accepted albedo of the Moon?

The Lunar Sourcebook says it ranges from about 7% to 24%, with maria around 7% to 10% and most highlands around 11% to 18%. Presumably, these are near-zero phase measurements from Earth during a full moon.

In a later chapter some zero-phase measurements are described from photos taken from the CM. The albedos ranged from 7% at the Apollo 11 site to 19% at a highland site.

Another study of normal albedo for 67 sites ranged from 5.7% to 18.4%.
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