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The dark side in color

40 years ago, Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon. At that time, these images were seen in black and white on most TV and newspapers around the world. Now, 40 years later, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown us this image of the Moon's South Pole in vivid colors.

Of course, they are not the true colors of the moon. It is a topographic map, the most detailed ever made for this region of the moon, which gives its height with an accuracy of five meters. The waves sent by the 70-metre radar from California’s Goldstone Observatory have reached where the sun’s rays never reach. Thanks to this, the vicissitudes of the dark side of the moon are now clearer.