{"id":1830662,"date":"2024-05-06T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1830662"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:33:41","slug":"chinese-academy-of-sciences-releases-12500000-geologic-maps-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/chinese-academy-of-sciences-releases-12500000-geologic-maps-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Academy of Sciences Releases 1:2,500,000 Geologic Maps of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last month the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a set of geologic maps of the moon<\/a> at 1:2,500,000 scale\u2014twice the resolution of the USGS\u2019s 1:5,000,000 scale maps. Available, it seems, as a geologic atlas as well as quadrangle maps\u2014though it\u2019s not immediately apparent from where. News: Nature<\/a><\/em>, Popular Science<\/a><\/em>, Universe Today<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a set of geologic maps of the moon at 1:2,500,000 scale\u2014twice the resolution of the USGS\u2019s 1:5,000,000 scale maps. Available, it seems, as a geologic atlas as… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1830662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","category-geology","tag-moon","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788310,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/unified-geologic-map-of-the-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830662,"position":0},"title":"Unified Geologic Map of the Moon","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"A new unified geologic map of the Moon, based on digital renovations that updated 1970s-era geologic maps to match more recent topographic and image data gathered by lunar orbiters, was released by the USGS last month. 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