A detail of a geological map of the moon released by Chinese scientists in 2022. An even more detailed moon 'atlas' is now available, revealing more than 12,000 lunar structures. (Image credit ...

The updated map could be used to aid future ... the U.S., Japan and India. It reveals geologic layers, structural features and a chronology of the moon's surface, and includes 12,341 impact ...

A study on the moon map titled "The 1:2,500,000-scale geologic map of the global moon" has been accepted for publication in the journal Science Bulletin. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of ...

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 ...

Some parts of the moon are more interesting than others, especially when searching for future places for humans to land and ...

The digital versions of the full Moon's geologic map with the world's highest resolution will be published this year, according to its researchers. This was reported ...

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

Geological maps – almost four dozen of them – position Lunar to change its readers’ understanding of the realities of the moon. They are part of the Lunar Atlas produced by NASA and the ...

Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...