- Original Caption Released with Image:
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These images from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research
Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft show data for the hemisphere of the
moon that faces Earth. The image on the left shows albedo, or the sunlight
reflected from the surface of the moon. The image on the right shows where
infrared light is absorbed in the characteristic manner that indicates the
presence of water and hydroxyl molecules. That image shows that signature
most strongly at the cool, high latitudes near the poles. The blue arrow
indicates Goldschmidt crater, a large feldspar-rich region with a higher
water and hydroxyl signature.
- Image Credit:
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ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Brown Univ.
Image Addition Date:
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2009-09-24
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