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Revealing the Invisible

Revealing the Invisible

Visible light images can tell us a lot, but not everything. These data maps reveal lunar surface temperatures, slope and elevation, subsurface rockiness, and more.

Illumination Map of the Moon's South Pole

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Data visualization of swirls of green and blues of the surface slopes at the Moon's south pole.

Slope Map of the Lunar South Pole

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Faces of Shackleton

Faces of Shackleton

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Topography of Earth's moon generated from data NASA's LRO, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum region superimposed in blue. The border structures are shown using gravity gradients calculated with data from NASA's GRAIL mission.

Gravity Gradients Frame Oceanus Procellarum

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Copernicus in Color!

Copernicus in Color (LRO)

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Diviner North Pole Minimum Temperature

Nighttime Temperatures at the Lunar North Pole (LRO)

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color-coded map of heavily-cratered terrain

Topographic Map of the Moon's South Polar Region (LRO)

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Ultraviolet & Visible Tycho Crater (Clementine)

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Visible & Near-Infrared Moon (Galileo)

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Rainbow colored Moon.

Colorful Moon (Galileo)

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View of the half-lit Moon. A different lunar hemisphere than the one that faces Earth. Dark patches and basins splotch the sunlit quarter. Faint

North Polar Mosaic - Color Composite (Galileo)

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