The moon is not just gray, new images show: 'Real color differences'

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The moon is not just gray, new images show: 'Real color differences'
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A blue supermoon lit up Colorado in a rare cosmic event on Aug 19, 2024

is way more colorful than just shades of gray. Instead, the orbital rock was observed to show tints of both blue and red.

Inside 'dark tourism' — the new trend for wealthy boomers vacationing in areas with high travel advisoriesNewly released photos show the mares of the moon — flatlands of surface far from either pole — were found to emit a more blueish color.that “darker regions” in the Mare Fecunditatis — next to the Apollo 11 landing site known as the Sea of Tranquility — “are related to terrains which were resurfaced by volcanic activity.

While the ESA billed the differences as a “darker grey, light grey and even lighter grey,” Coates said that “it does look like there are some apparent real color differences.” Those more vivid land masses are known as elevated highlands — a rugged landing site used by Apollo 16.

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