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Colour on the Moon

Nature volume 204, pages 1075–1076 (1964)Cite this article

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FOR more than half a century there have been reports of colour on the Moon. Few of these confirm one another in detail.

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SCOTT, N. Colour on the Moon. Nature 204, 1075–1076 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041075a0

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