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by 1tSlEv 743 days ago
Both sides of the moon are dark. With albedo of 0.136, it's one of the darkest things in the solar system.
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You'd be dark too if you were made out of the smashed insides of two crash victims mushed together!

Though it probably doesn't feel very dark in sunlight with no atmosphere above you. Like standing in a very exposed, lumpy, dusty car park (asphalt albedo: 0.05-0.1), except the sky is black, not blue.

Is that fresh, black asphalt or older, light asphalt?
New, old asphalt goes up to around 0.25 in some cases apparently: https://eng.auburn.edu/research/centers/ncat/newsroom/2016-f...