China releases new geological atlas of the Moon
The map above is one low resolution example of a new detailed geological atlas that Chinese scientists have created and just released, using data obtained from all of China’s recent lunar missions, both orbiters and landers.
More information here.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile, reveals a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar surface. The maps were made at the unprecedented scale of 1:2,500,000.
…The CAS also released a book called Map Quadrangles of the Geologic Atlas of the Moon, comprising 30 sector diagrams which together form a visualization of the whole Moon.
The map has been released in both Chinese and English.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The map above is one low resolution example of a new detailed geological atlas that Chinese scientists have created and just released, using data obtained from all of China’s recent lunar missions, both orbiters and landers.
More information here.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile, reveals a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar surface. The maps were made at the unprecedented scale of 1:2,500,000.
…The CAS also released a book called Map Quadrangles of the Geologic Atlas of the Moon, comprising 30 sector diagrams which together form a visualization of the whole Moon.
The map has been released in both Chinese and English.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Okay, if this matches western data, great! I’m sure the significance is the detail and the moon-wide coverage. CCP is investing heavily on pure scientific research. They recently built a stunning radio astronomy dish, whist NASA let Arecibo fall apart: https://www.space.com/china-fast-radio-telescope-open-international-scientists.
Their’s is a scholarly people.
I remember hearing a friend of mine relate how his daughter (who went to school in the West Coast) would see the library full of folks from China hitting the books early on. The white kids were playing D&D and the jocks nowhere to be found.
This is a cultural thing.
There was some protest or other, with white girls from the sociology department trying to have a sit in. One of the Asian kids–who had enough–all but shamed them outside.
Go to phys.org awhile–lots of NEW research comes from China. They are not just copycats.
Libraries are holy places to bookworms.
Frankly, I hoped Covid would kill sports.
Jeff Wright:
If you go to Vancouver, BC (40% Asian), you will find homeless people and graffiti notably lacking. Stanley Park would be overrun if it were anywhere South of the 48th. Yet, clean, safe, and not a tent in sight. It is cultural. And one thing Western ‘victim culture’ is learning, is that the rest of the world Does Not Care about your neuroses. Americans can dominate world affairs and commerce, but as long as the Terminally Aggrieved are running things, we are nothing more than a speed bump.
About the map: I believe the Chinese failed to include six small, American aluminum deposits.