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Mineral Moon, Tony Cook

Mineral Moon

Mineral Moon, Tony Cook

Mineral Moon

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The minerals on the Moon are subtly coloured and reveal the types of material present on various parts of the surface, especially the maria. Stacking over 100 images to reduce noise to a bare minimum and using a colour amplification process exagerates these subtle colour differences

The blues are indicatiors of high titanium content basalts at greater than 7 weight percent. The brown minerals are low titanium basalts - down to 3 weight percent, while the whiter rocks are a mixture of old highlands and newer crater ejecta

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Mineral Moon, Tony Cook

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