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Old 10-04-2010, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
That's an excellent piece of science....very well done

There's a lot you could do with that map, and some research of the journals. Just from that piccie, you can see obvious age relationships between the TiO basalt types. It would be interesting to have a look at the bulk chemistry and petrology of the lunar samples and then try to infer a melt composition progression for the basalts. That would help to tie down the sequence of eruptions within the mare.
Thanks very much Carl. That would be interesting to do. I wonder if one could then make an image which is colour-coded by age of the surface. Of course it would require quite a bit of study, but definitely something to try on a rainy day

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We are looking at the future Chinese or US titanium mine site I suspect ... if they didn't already know they will now mate

Well done !

Thanks Steve, with Constellation axed it looks most likely to be Chinese now...

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A similar mosaic of the entire Moon, as well as of selected areas, in saturated light is here,

http://astroimg.org/colourlunar.html

Zac Pujic
Brisbane, Australia
astroimg.org
Some very nice images there Zac, it certainly puts our old moon in a new light. Beautiful work!

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Excellent work and effort.

well done

Martin
Thank you very much Martin
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