The atlas, which is available in both Chinese and English, was assembled using data from China’s lunar exploration programme, especially the Chang’e-1 mission, which surveyed the lunar surface ...

15:57, Tue, Oct 8, 2024 Updated: 15:57, Tue, Oct 8, 2024 Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are ...

China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. (Image credit: CNSA) Chinese scientists and cartographers began drawing the map in 2012. China has launched a ...

As highlighted recently by Nature, the Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe includes 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 different rock types found across the moon’s surface, doubling previous map ...

China has revealed the most detailed atlas of the moon ever made. The high-resolution geological map is the first major update of lunar information since NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s.

China on Sunday released a geologic atlas set of the global moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million, which is the first complete high-definition lunar geologic atlas in the world, providing basic map ...

China Sunday released a set of geologic atlas of the global moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million, which is the fi rst complete high-definition lunar geologic atlas in the world, providing basic map data ...

A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as the "Land of Flowers" and put China at the centre of the world went on display Tuesday at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

A new book containing reproductions of 127 printed European maps of Ming and Qing China from 1584 to 1735 reveals how they helped paint a reasonably accurate picture of the Middle Kingdom for the ...