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Ben Turner

China reveals most detailed geological map of the moon ever created

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. .

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. 

The atlas, which took around 100 researchers more than a decade to complete, captures the lunar surface in exquisite detail, showing 14 categories of structures, 17 rock types, 81 impact basins and 12,341 craters. 

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