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Japanese moon

Selene, Japan’s lunar spacecraft, has been putting together an incredibly detailed map of the moon that includes mineral identifications. That’s all cool, but the sheer Japaneseness of the map below delights me. It’s the moon as Hiroshige would have printed it had he been into astronomy.

Japanese moon map

If you click on the image you can see a larger (250KB) version that covers the whole of the earthward hemisphere.

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