Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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[O-02] Poster presentations by senior high school students

Sun. May 22, 2016 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)

Convener:*Tatsuhiko Hara(International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute), Miwa Kuri(International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University), Keiko Konya(Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Hajime Naruse(Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University), Kou Yamada(Waseda University)

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

[O02-P21] ~ Dark side of the moon : Is the Earthshine really blue? ~

*Shiho Nakajima1, Rinka Bisaiji1, *Shito Fukuda1, Neo Takakusagi1, Satomi Nakano1 (1.Maebashi Girls' High School)

Keywords:Earthshine, Colour

Yuri Gagarin,who is a Russian astronaut and the first human in space, said "The Earth is blue"when he looked at the earth from the space. We'd also like to say "The Earth is blue " as he did, but it is not easy for us to travel into space to see the Earth as he did. Then, how about staying "The Earth SHINE is blue ,instead? The earth shine is not something we can easily see, so we decided to research it in detail. We assumed that we could say the earth is blue if the percentage of the blue shine is larger than that of the moon. As a result of our observation, the percentage of RGB of the moon is different from that of the earth shine and we have found that the earth shine and is more likely to be tinged with blue.