Create a stunning ‘Mineral Moon’ image
Jul 16, 2020
3 minutes
The Moon looks more or less colourless through a telescope. Even the Apollo astronauts observing it up close, described it as mainly grey, or slightly brown. But the Moon’s surface material, known as regolith, does have very subtle colour differences, which are dictated by the mineral composition in any particular area. This mineral distribution on the lunar surface was mapped in great detail by the US Clementine probe in 1994, but the good
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