Abstract
Abstract. The research project ‘Moon Mapping’ has been established in 2014 between the Italian and Chinese Governments to promote cooperation and exchange between undergraduate students from both countries. The operational phase of the project started in early 2015, and will end in 2017, for a total length of three years. The main aim is to train new scholars to be able to work on different kinds of remotely-sensed data collected over the Moon surface by the Chinese space missions Chang’E-1/2. The project coordination has been assigned to the Italian Space Agency for the Italian side and to the Center of Space Exploration, China Ministry of Education, for the Chinese side. Several Chinese universities and Italian national research institutes and universities have been officially involved in this project. Six main research topics have been identified: (1) map of the solar wind ion; (2) geomorphological map of the Moon; (3) data preprocessing of Chang’E-1 mission; (4) map of element distribution; (5) establishment of 3D digital visualization system; and (6) compilation and publication of a tutorial on joint lunar mapping.
Highlights
On the basis of the great experience that Italy and China have achieved in space exploration over the last decades, the governments of both countries agreed to foster scientific and technological cooperation in this field
The project coordination has been assigned to the Italian Space Agency for the Italian side and to the Center of Space Exploration, China Ministry of Education, for the Chinese side
Both countries would like to promote the exploitation of existing large archives of data sets, in particular the ones collected during the recent Chinese missions (Chang’E series) on the Moon
Summary
On the basis of the great experience that Italy and China have achieved in space exploration over the last decades, the governments of both countries agreed to foster scientific and technological cooperation in this field Both countries would like to promote the exploitation of existing large archives of data sets, in particular the ones collected during the recent Chinese missions (Chang’E series) on the Moon The education and the exchange of new generation scholars to be enrolled in space exploration and planetary sciences are seen as a crucial points in both countries According to these preliminary considerations, in 2012 the ‘Joint Lunar Map Drawing Project by Chinese and Italian College Students,’ know as ‘Moon Mapping Project’ (MMP), was organized. Documents and news can be found at the website http://solarsystem.asdc.asi.it/change
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