THE digital versions of the full moon’s geologic map with the world’s highest resolution will be published this year, according to its researchers.

The announcement came during the just-concluded Guizhou science and technology festival held in Southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

In May 2022, a Chinese research team announced they completed a 1:2,500,000-scale geologic map of the moon with the world’s highest resolution.

Such a map of the moon can provide significant data for lunar scientific research, exploration planning, future landing-site selection, and so on, said Liu Jianzhong, a researcher from the Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Liu is also the executive chief editor of the map’s publication.

The research team is still working on a 1:1,000,000-scale geologic moon map. (Xinhua)