A team of Chinese scientists created the most detailed map of the lunar surface yet. It took them ten years.
The Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences led the project and other Chinese institutions took part. The map shows 12,341 impact craters, 81 impact basins, 17 rock types and 14 different types of structures.
It’s difficult to overstate how detailed the map is. The tighter you zoom in the more detail there is. Other maps of the Moon were created with data from different space-faring nations, and while they’ve been effective, there were different standards and capabilities behind all that data. But this one is different. This map is all built to the same standard.
This is a screenshot of a small part of the map’s legend. The legend contains an enormous amount of detail. Image via Science Bulletin/Research Gate
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