File:Moon structure.svg

Summary

Description
English: The inner structure of the Moon (from innermost): core (yellow, r=160km), primitive mantle (orange, r=1188km), depleted mantle (blue, r=1670km), crust (grey, r=1738km)
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Own work

Prototyped with PovRay, manually traced and post-processed with Illustrator.

 This image was created with POV-Ray.
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 This vector image was created with Adobe Illustrator by v.
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PovRay source code:

#include "colors.inc"
#include "shapes.inc"

background {
  color White
}

camera {
  location <18, 20, -30>
  look_at  <0, 0, 0>
}

light_source { <5, 30, -40> color White }

// Core
sphere {
  <0, 0, 0>, 3.5
  texture {
    pigment { color Red }
  }
}

// Primitive Mantle
difference{
  sphere {
    <0, 0, 0>, 11.88
    texture {
      pigment { color Yellow }
    }
  }
  prism {
    linear_spline
    0, // height 1
    20, // height 2
    3, // the number of points making up the shape...
    <0,0>,<-18.01,20>,<2.5,20>
    rotate y*180
    translate -0.01*y
    pigment { color Yellow }
  }
}

// Depleted Mantle
difference{
  sphere {
    <0, 0, 0>, 16.70
    texture {
      pigment { color Green }
    }
  }
  prism {
    linear_spline
    0, // height 1
    20, // height 2
    3, // the number of points making up the shape...
    <0,0>,<-18.02,20>,<4.5,20>
    rotate y*180
    translate -0.02*y
    
    pigment { color Green }
  }
}

// Crust
difference{
  sphere {
    <0, 0, 0>, 17.38
    texture {
      pigment { color White }
    }
  }
  prism {
    linear_spline
    0, // height 1
    20, // height 2
    3, // the number of points making up the shape...
    <0,0>,<-18.03,20>,<6,20>
    rotate y*180
    translate -0.03*y
    
    pigment { color White }
  }
}
Author Lennart Kudling

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