2024-04-21 03:22:16
BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) — China on Sunday released a set of geological atlases of the global moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million, which is the world’s first complete high-resolution lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for future lunar research and exploration .
This set of geological atlases, available in Chinese and English, includes the Geological Atlas of the Lunar Globe and Map Quadrangles of the Geological Atlas of the Moon, according to the Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). ).
“The lunar geological atlas is of great importance to the study of the moon’s development, the selection of the site for the future lunar research station and the utilization of the moon’s resources. It can also help us better understand the Earth and other planets in the solar system, such as Mars,” said Ouyang Ziyuan, a CAS academic and leading lunar scientist.
“The world has witnessed significant advances in lunar exploration and scientific research in recent decades, which have significantly improved our understanding of the Moon. However, the geological maps of the Moon published during the Apollo era “have not been changed in regarding half a year. century, and is still used for lunar geological research With the improvements of lunar geological studies, the old maps can no longer meet the needs of future scientific research and lunar exploration,” he said. Liu Jianzhong, senior researcher at the CAS Institute. of geochemistry.
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