New moon atlas the most detailed ever
A new moon atlas is the most detailed ever produced, based on data from the Chang'e-1 mission and published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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.
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