China releases world’s most detailed map of the moon

Highlights:

• China has released a new geological map of the moon.
• It  is the most detailed to date, registering even finer details of the lunar surface than mapped by the US in 2020.

• The new map, which has details of craters and structures not charted before, will assist in further research of the moon.
• The world’s most detailed map of the moon released by China is expected to make a great contribution to the scientific research, exploration, and landing site selection on the moon.
• That digital map showed the moon’s geology in, what the Science Centre described as, incredible detail at a scale of 1:5000000.
• Chinese scientists, however, say they have done better.
• “China has released a new comprehensive geologic map of the moon to a scale of 1:2500000, the most detailed to date.
• The map project was led by the Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.