2. Moon’s Mean Surface Temperature calculation

Tmean.moon

Surface temp..Tmin..Tmean..Tmax

Kelvin.............100.K...220.K...390.K

So = 1.361 W/m² (So is the Solar constant)

Moon’s albedo: amoon = 0,11

Moon’s sidereal rotation period is 27,32 days. But Moon is Earth’s satellite, so the lunar day is 29,5 days

Moon does N = 1/29,5 rotations/per day

Moon is a rocky planet, Moon’s surface irradiation accepting factor Φmoon = 0,47

(Accepted by a Smooth Hemisphere with radius r sunlight is S* Φ*π*r²*(1-a), where Φ = 0,47)

cp.moon = 0,19cal/gr oC, moon’s surface specific heat (moon’s surface is considered as a dry soil)

β = 150 days*gr*oC/rotation*cal – it is a Rotating Planet Surface Solar Irradiation INTERACTING-Emitting Universal Law constant

σ = 5,67*10⁻⁸ W/m²K⁴, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant

Moon’s Mean Surface Temperature Equation Tmean.moon:

Tmean.moon = [ Φ (1 - a) So (β*N*cp)¹∕ ⁴ /4σ ]¹∕ ⁴

Tmean.moon = { 0,47 (1 - 0,11) 1.361 W/m² [150* (1/29,5)*0,19]¹∕ ⁴ /4*5,67*10⁻⁸ W/m²K⁴ }¹∕ ⁴ =

Tmean.moon = ( 2.488.581.418,96 )¹∕ ⁴ = 223,35 K

Tmean.moon = 223,35 Κ

The newly calculated Moon’s Mean Surface Temperature differs only by 1,54% from that measured by satellites!

Tsat.mean.moon = 220 K, measured by satellites.

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Earth is on average warmer 68C than Moon.

Earth is on average warmer 68C than Moon (288K – 220K = 68C).

It is not only because of the Earth having 29,53 times faster rotational spin.

Earth has a five (5) times higher average surface specific heat (for Earth cp.earth = 1 cal/gr*oC, it is because Earth has a vast ocean; and for Moon cp.moon = 0,19cal/gr oC – its soil is a dry regolith).

Earth is warmer than Moon not because of its very thin atmosphere trace greenhouse gasses content.

Earth is warmer because its surface has 155,42 times higher the (N*cp) product than Moon's surface.

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So if the Moon rotated four times as fast...


The dawn and dusk terminators would both be warmer then.


Lets apply the Planet Surface Rotational Warming Phenomenon:


The Moons mean surface temperature Tmean = 220K

would be then 4^1/16 (four in sixteenth root) times higher.


(4^1/16)*220K = 1,09050*220K =240K


Thus, if Moon rotated four times as fast, its mean surface

temperature would be 240K.

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  The faster a planet rotates (n2>n1) the higher is the planet’s average (mean) temperature T↑mean:

Tmin→ T↑mean ← Tmax

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