False-colour Photograph Of The Full Moon
by Dr Fred Espenak/science Photo Library
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False-colour Photograph Of The Full Moon
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Dr Fred Espenak/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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False-colour telescope photograph of the full moon, showing bright rayed meteor impact craters and dark seas" or maria. The bright crater at the bottom is Tycho. The colour has been added by a photographic technique called isophote mapping, which assigns colours to different levels of grey in the black-and-white original."
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February 22nd, 2021
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