Teenager's photo of the Moon included 55K photographs

Prathamesh Jaju, 16, from Pune, Maharashtra, (India) shared this HDR image of a waning crescent moon.

"Colors, Jaju said, are a fascinating phenomenon. They represent the minerals of the Moon that DSLR cameras can distinguish with greater clarity than the human eye.

"The blue tones reveal areas rich in ilmenite, which contains iron, titanium and oxygen, while the colors orange and purple show relatively poor regions in titanium and iron. White and gray tones indicate areas exposed to more sunlight."

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