Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Multispectral views of Giordano Bruno from M3

Multispectral views of Giordano Bruno from M3
Multispectral views of Giordano Bruno from M3 These images of the fresh crater Giordano Bruno were all created with data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 or "M-cubed") on India's Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. They are all false-color images representing information about the reflectance of lunar materials in the infrared portion of the spectrum. Left image: red channel is 930 nm, green channel 1249 nm, blue channel 2018 nm. Mafic minerals appear green to yellow; feldspar-rich pixels appear pink; mature regolith appears gray. Center image: red channel is 930 nm, green channel is 2018 nm, blue channel is 2816 nm. In this image, hydration features are highlighted yellow. Right image: A "rock type composite" that uses spectral band information to highlight certain minerals. The red channel highlights the spectral presence of pyroxene; the green channel, spinel; and the blue channel, anorthosite. ISRO / NASA / Chandrayaan-1 / courtesy Sriram S. Bhiravarasu