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If you ask the first comer, what is the color of the surface of the moon, he will surely tell you that obviously gray, in spite of her silver light at night. Numerous pictures of a natural satellite The lands have a really unsightly gray color, but on in fact, the closest celestial body to us looks quite differently. The lion’s share of photographs of Selena posted on the World the web, was incorrectly processed, so the average layman and it was believed that the Moon – gray.
In reality, Selena impresses with a variety of colors. Photographer Alan Paylu at the request of the American National space agency processed one of the satellite images in such so that the photo is as close as possible to reality in its color schemes. In this artist helped astronauts who saw the surface of the moon near with their own eyes. An interesting result published on the official website of NASA, you You can see in the image below.
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Planetologists say that according to the color palette of the celestial body You can study its chemical composition. So, the color of the purple patches indicates the absence of titanium and iron in them. In a blue tint areas where titanium, on the contrary, are very much painted. Darkest the color has a lunar crater Archimedes in the east of the Sea of Rains.
It’s reported that the photograph chosen by the photographer Alan Paylu was received back in 1965 during the Apollo mission. Astronauts captured in the photo Selena, as they say, in all its glory, however the cameras of that time could not convey all the beauty of Selena. However, even today’s most advanced devices sin by this. That’s why the artist took up this task – to present the moon such as her human eye would see, and certainly possessing a refined perception of all kinds of shades in this colorful palette …
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