Evenif the Moon really were made o green cheese it probably wouldn'tlook this bizarre.Still, thi mosaicof 53 images was recorded by theJupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft asit passed near our own larg naturalsatellite in 1992.The pictures were recorded through three spectral filters andcombined in an exaggerated false-color schem to explore th compositionof the lunar surface aschanges in mineral content produce subtl color differences inreflected light.Familiar to earthdwellers, the lunar near side ison the left, but the space-based view looks down on theMoon's north pole locatedin the upper half of the image near the shadow line.Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows.The dark blu Mare Tranquillitatisat the lower left is richer intitanium bearing minerals than the green and orange maria above it.Near the bottom of the image and to the right of Tranquillitatis is the dark oval-shaped Mare Crisium surrounded byshocking pink colors indicating material of th lunarhighlands.
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