In today's image, we seen image of our Moon which has been enhanced to bring out some of the detail that is normally not visible. We can see the two different regions of our Moon - the maria and the highlands which are the darker and lighter regions respectively. In addition, color coding is used to show regions enriched in iron (blue) and aluminum (orange).

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