RE: My Astro Photo Of The Day
November 21, 2010 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2010 at 1:12 pm by orogenicman.)
![[Image: moon-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fmoon-1.jpg)
Here is a Harvest Moon image I took back in 2006. Although the Moon has the appearence of being very bland and devoid of much color, note in this image the very subtle shades and colors that actually exists on the Moon. I took this image and enhanced it in order to bring out those subtle colors and shades, which are, after all, a hint of the mineralogical composition of surface rocks of the Moon. The result was the image below:
![[Image: crw_2555z.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fmoon%2Fcrw_2555z.jpg)
The bluish-colored regions contain a unique titaniam-rich basalt (from the mineral ilmenite), while the reddish regions are rich in iron and magnesium. The grayish and pinkish regions (which are primarily in the lunar highlands) are composed primarily of silicates and impact regolith. Photos like these have helped NASA to map not only the composition of the Moon, but the relative ages of its various features. I merely made these to show that it is possible for even ranks amateurs like me to produce useful information.
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- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
