How does the moon reflect light from the sun?

How does the moon reflect light from the sun?

Answer: The moon illuminates in a way called specular reflection where it bounces the light from the sun.

The first phenomenon is the specular reflection where a smooth surface becomes illuminated by a source of light and the reflection of this light is at the angle of incidence. The lunar ground, as far as we are concerned seems to be rugged, but in a real sense, it is relatively even at the atomic level. As the sunlight comes into the lunar surface, a part of it is adsorbed but most of it is reflected to space. This reflected light is the one that illuminates the moon so that it can be seen from Earth. The albedo of the moon which is the reflectivity is approximately equal to 0. 12 The number indicates that it transmits or reflects about 12% of the light that falls on it. The phases of the moon that we experience are a result of the relative positions of the Earth and the moon to the Sun, and how much of this lighted side of the moon is visible from the Earth at any one time.