First-ever digital geological map of moon released by US Geological Survey
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News: The United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Lunar Planetary Institute released the ‘Unified Geologic Map of the Moon’

Facts: 

  • It is the first ever digital, unified, global, geological map of the moon
  • Scale: 1:5,000,000
  • Significance:
    • blueprint for future human missions 
    • source of research and analysis for the educators and the general public interested in lunar geology

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