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earthshine
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Earthlight.
At the Moon
No person has been on the Moon during its night time to experience earthshine from the surface. Earthshine during lunar night is about 43 times brighter, and sometimes even 55 times brighter, than a night on Earth illuminated by the light of the full moon. Only on the far side and during lunar eclipses on the near side does the night become dark (and darker than a moonless night on Earth).