PIA00113: Moon Color Composite
 Target Name:  Moon
 Is a satellite of:  Earth
 Mission:  Galileo
 Spacecraft:  Galileo Orbiter
 Instrument:  Solid-State Imaging 
 Product Size:  1069 x 1069 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P37329
 Addition Date:  1996-02-02
 Primary Data Set:  Galileo EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00113.tif (1.786 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00113.jpg (76.81 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This color image of the Moon was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 9:35 a.m. PST Dec. 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles. The color composite uses monochrome images taken through violet, red, and near-infrared filters. The concentric, circular Orientale basin, 600 miles across, is near the center; the nearside is to the right, the far side to the left. At the upper right is the large, dark Oceanus Procellarum; below it is the smaller Mare Humorum. These, like the small dark Mare Orientale in the center of the basin, formed over 3 billion years ago as basaltic lava flows. At the lower left, among the southern cratered highlands of the far side, is the South-Pole-Aitken basin, similar to Orientale but twice as great in diameter and much older and more degraded by cratering and weathering. The cratered highlands of the near and far sides and the Maria are covered with scattered bright, young ray craters.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-02-02