Color + Design Blog / Mineral Colors from the Near Side of the Moon by COLOURlovers

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.

Some lunar surface inspiration from ColourLovers:

16 November, 2007

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anglepois…

anglepoiselamp wrote:

16 Nov, 2007

Heh. I just made a palette of the moon's mineral colours yesterday!

onebreath

onebreath wrote:

16 Nov, 2007

Such a wonderful post again! It gave me an excuse to use the prefix xeno-!

Thank you, Professor. :)

alullaby

alullaby wrote:

16 Nov, 2007

alullaby

alullaby wrote:

16 Nov, 2007

liddle_r

liddle_r wrote:

16 Nov, 2007

lizcrimso…

lizcrimson wrote:

17 Nov, 2007

i made this almost a year ago. its about the high iron content on the moon.

circuscar…

circuscarnival wrote:

17 Nov, 2007

Kayru

Kayru wrote:

20 Nov, 2007

Oh, weird! I've not read this, but I JUST made a moon-inspired palette.

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