China Releases New Moon Map: World's Most Detailed

• 11 Jun 2022

China has released a new geological map of the moon, to a scale of 1:2500000 which is the most detailed to date, registering even finer details of the lunar surface than mapped by the US in 2020.

• The map includes 12,341 impact craters, 81 impact basins, 17 rock types and 14 types of structures, providing abundant information about geology of the moon and its evolution.
• The new map has details of craters and structures not charted before that will assist in further research of the moon.
• Previously, the US released a moon map to a scale of 1:5,000,000 in 2020.