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Surface Chemistry Maps

Color enhanced mineral maps
Photojournal: PIA19242
Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Published: March 13, 2015

These maps, together with maps of other elemental abundances, reveal the presence of distinct geochemical terranes.

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