Geologic maps aren’t ordinary maps, they are useful tools that illustrate the rocks beneath your feet! These maps use bright colors to differentiate ... Morava Valles (green units) and ponded ...

Different colors on a new geologic map of the moon designate different ... are typically marked green. Craters from the older Imbrian period (around 3.9 billion to 3.2 billion years ago) are ...

ABU ZAWAL, Egypt — If you’re searching for gold in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, you should bring water, a spare tire, an exploration geologist, and a good map ... green. “That’s another color ...

Despite several flyby missions of Europa, no full geologic map of the moon previously existed ... into ice — is known as "chaos" terrain (green colors) because of its slapdash grouping of ...

A special camera onboard the Dawn spacecraft made the geologic maps possible. The camera uses seven different color filers that help analyze the different minerals covering Vesta's surface.

announced that they have developed an updated geologic time scale and color scheme for use in creating geologic maps of the United States. Geologic maps show the rock types at the Earth’s ...

It took 16 years and data from four orbiting spacecraft to assemble, but the U.S. Geological Survey's new map of Mars is awesome. In beautiful color and excellent detail, the map shows the geology ...