Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 00:49
in Astronomy & Space
A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they had made new discoveries (such as impact basins and volcanic deposit highlands) of some ancient topographic characteristics on the lunar surface.