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Mineral Colors from the Near Side of the Moon

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Eons of meteorite impacts on the lunar surface have left an amazing array of mineral deposits. Back in 1971, cartographers Don E. Wilhelms and John F. McCauley of the U.S. Geological Survey created a series of startlingly colorful lunar maps for NASA. The details below are from the Moon's near side. To see large and complete maps of the moon, see U.S. Geological Survey Website.

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Endless Forest A Lunar Tan

great white Lunar Moss

Shimomo Crater Impact

Crater Green Lunar Chocolate

Salmon Bones Lunar Coffee

Lunar Daybreak Sunset on the Moon

Lunar Crater Lake Violets on the Moon

 

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Lunar Lakebed Lunar Pond

♑ cardinal Meteor Impact

Shallow Crater Lunar Red Tide

Lunar Latitude October

Lunar Shadow Lunar Orange

 

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Lunar Tourmaline and to call her

Lunar Twilight Lunar Sea Foam

Moon Drab Crater Shadow

 

Some lunar surface inspiration from ColourLovers:

Surface Of The Moon Lunar

Lunar Landing Lunar Ocean

Lunar Sea Lunar Landing II

Lunar Sea Lunar samples

a walk on the moon Lunar Gold

16 November, 2007
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anglepois…
16 Nov, 2007
Heh. I just made a palette of the moon's mineral colours yesterday!

Face of the Moon

onebreath
onebreath wrote:
16 Nov, 2007
Such a wonderful post again! It gave me an excuse to use the prefix xeno-!

Odd Xenolith

Thank you, Professor. :)

alullaby
alullaby wrote:
16 Nov, 2007
Tolling of Iron Bell

alullaby
alullaby wrote:
16 Nov, 2007
DARKSIDEoftheMOON

liddle_r
liddle_r wrote:
16 Nov, 2007
goodnight moon

lizcrimso…
lizcrimson wrote:
17 Nov, 2007
i made this almost a year ago. its about the high iron content on the moon.
moon dust

circuscar…
17 Nov, 2007
Lazy Moonrise

Kayru
Kayru wrote:
20 Nov, 2007
Oh, weird! I've not read this, but I JUST made a moon-inspired palette.

Black Moon


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