China Creates a High-Resolution Atlas of the Moon (www.universetoday.com)

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Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This seems to be the source of the linked article (though I'm not sure how official it is, the titles for every article contain at least the word "China" and read like SEO spam).

From what I can tell, the atlas seems to be print only. There's a high-res JPEG (200MB) you can download, which I think is part of the atlas, but you'll need to pay for the physical version if you want the full thing.

Edit: that link is from a publication dated two years ago. I'm guessing it's a pre-print version? Still pretty cool, but maybe not the version the linked post is to be talking about.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That’s all I could find as well. It would make a cool app to explore the Moon.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think Google Earth used to have both the moon and Mars as explorable options. Perhaps you can find an old copy that still has it? Mapping is based on the old NASA data but I doubt you'd notice the difference with the new Chinese data set when you get up close.

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