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False colour flat mosaic of a basin on Mercury.Credit:

In the saturated false colour of the visualization, it looked oddly like the moving ring patterns you get in the glow discharge of an old fluorescent tube — something Jeff was too young to have seen.

The satellite views show a "natural" view of the surface as your eye would see it and a "false colour" view highlighting the water.

A nerve cell in the human brain, seen in a false colour under a scanning electron microscope.Credit:

The first image shows the volcano in natural colour and the second in false colour, which by highlighting vegetation in red shows the damage caused by lava.