Geology 1041: Freshman Seminar: Minerals and Life
All that Glitters is not Gold
Spring 2008

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Minerals
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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometers) from Earth.

The image was taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2, in PC mode. False color has been used enhance cloud features.