China on Sunday released a global lunar geological atlas with a scale of 1:2.5 million. This is the world’s first complete high-definition lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for future lunar research and exploration. This photo shows a geological atlas of the Moon and Earth. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Xinhua News Agency information)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 21 (Xinhua) China released a global lunar geological atlas with a scale of 1:2.5 million on the 21st. This is the world’s first complete high-definition lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for the lunar geological atlas. Future lunar research and exploration.
According to the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this set of geological atlases is available in Chinese and English versions, including the “Geological Atlas of the Moon and the Earth” and the “Quadrilateral Map of the Geological Atlas of the Moon”.
“The Lunar Geological Atlas is of great significance for studying the evolution of the moon, selecting sites for future lunar research stations, and utilizing lunar resources. It can also help us better understand the earth and other planets in the solar system, such as Mars.” Ouyang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous lunar scientist Said from afar.
“In the past few decades, the world has made significant progress in the field of lunar exploration and scientific research, which has greatly improved our understanding of the moon. However, the lunar geological map released during the Apollo era has not changed for about half a year.” As the moon With the advancement of geological research, these old maps can no longer meet the needs of future scientific research and lunar exploration.
Since 2012, Ouyang Ziyuan and Liu Jianzhong have led a team of scientists and cartographers from relevant research institutions to compile this atlas.
Liu said the team compiled the atlas based on a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the moon’s origin and evolution, as well as scientific detection data from China’s Chang’e lunar exploration project and other research results at home and abroad.
The atlas not only provides basic data and scientific reference for the formulation and implementation of the scientific goals of my country’s lunar exploration project, but also fills the gaps in the compilation of my country’s lunar and planetary geological maps, and contributes to the study of the origin and development of the moon and planets. and the evolution of the solar system, Liu said.
Based on the perspective of the dynamic evolution of the moon, Chinese researchers have creatively established an updated lunar geological time scale, objectively depicted the lunar geological evolution process, and clearly demonstrated the lunar structure and magma evolution characteristics.
The atlas maps a total of 12,341 impact craters, 81 impact basins, 17 lithologies and 14 structures across the moon.
Liu said the atlas has been integrated into the digital lunar cloud platform built by Chinese scientists and will serve lunar scientific research, popular science education, as well as landing site selection, lunar resource detection and path planning for China’s future lunar exploration projects.
He mentioned that China’s upcoming Chang’e 6 mission is expected to collect samples from the Apollo Basin within the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon, which means that material ejected from ancient terrain may be collected in the process. “Our map can provide a macroscopic geological background to improve the purpose and efficiency of sample research,” Liu explained.
Gregory Michael, senior scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, is in Germany.
“This map, in particular, is the first worldwide to utilize all post-Apollo data. It builds on the achievements of the international community over the past few decades, as well as the huge success of China’s own Chang’e flight to the moon. .
China on Sunday released a global lunar geological atlas with a scale of 1:2.5 million. This is the world’s first complete high-definition lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for future lunar research and exploration. This page is a geological map of the Moon. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Xinhua News Agency information)
China on Sunday released a global lunar geological atlas with a scale of 1:2.5 million. This is the world’s first complete high-definition lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for future lunar research and exploration. This page is a map of lunar lithology. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Xinhua News Agency information)
China on Sunday released a global lunar geological atlas with a scale of 1:2.5 million. This is the world’s first complete high-definition lunar geological atlas, providing basic map data for future lunar research and exploration. This page is a map of the structure of the Moon. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Xinhua News Agency information)
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