China’s State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) has released a set of “world’s highest resolution” lunar images that cover all of the moon, taken by its second moon orbiter, Change’e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface. The images were photographed by a charge-coupled device (CCD) streo camera on Chang’e-2 from the height of 100 km over the lunar surface between October 2010 and the MAY 2011. the resolution of the images obtained is 17 times finer than those taken by its predecessor Chang’e-1. The scientists have produced 746moon pictures with the resolution of seven metres, and the total volume of data is about 800 GB.
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high resolution photos of the moon[/caption]According to the new road map China plans to launch a third moon mission, Chang’e-3 to deploy rovers to explore the lunar surface besides sending a probe to Mars next year and to Venus by 2015. It is also in the process of setting up its own manned space station and a Global Position System of its own.
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