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  Moon surface temp:
  equator  Min 100k, mean 220K max 390K
  85°N  min 70 K mean 130K max  230K
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

  Earth:   min 184k mean 287K max  331 K
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
PS: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has used its Diviner instrument to probe the insides of permanently shadowed craters on Earth's satellite. It found mid-winter, night-time surface temperatures inside the coldest craters in the northern polar region can dip as low as minus 249C (26 Kelvin). The Diviner instrument observed the lowest summer temperatures in the darkest craters at the southern pole to be about 35K (-238C); but in the north, close to the winter solstice the instrument recorded a temperature of just 26K on the south-western edge of the floor of Hermite Crater.
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