The moon's redox is capable of altering the redox state of Earth.

Did you know if our eyes could see gamma rays our Moon would look brighter than the Sun? So the next time a skeptic asks you how the ancients got cataracts before the power grid and fake lights were invented remember this post.
Cosmic radiation is not usually part of terrestrial sunlight and this is one of the ways more cosmic radiation can harm us here on Earth.
NASA Fermi's Large Area Telescope has been able to analyze the Moon’s gamma-ray glow as a way of understanding cosmic rays.

 

Can anyone write this in layman’s terms for when we want to describe it to a non-believer?