Italian photographer Marcella Giulia Pace has compiled a decade of photographing the Moon into a single spiral montage, selecting 48 images that reveal its varied colors. The collection reflects how Earth's atmosphere can shape the appearance of the same celestial body.
A decade distilled into 48 images
Pace's montage draws on 10 years of exploring lunar variations through photography. Arranged in a spiral, the selected images bring those differences together, allowing the range of hues to be seen in one composition.
The atmosphere behind the colors
The color differences arise when the Moon is viewed or photographed through Earth's atmosphere. Its layers are often uneven and irregular, affecting how the Moon appears.
Those atmospheric variations give Pace's lunar photographs their distinct hues. Her montage gathers the resulting differences into a visual study of the Moon's changing appearance.
