China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, state media reported. After putting its first man into space in 2003 -- only the third nation to do so -- China is aiming to launch an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and a manned mission to the moon by around 2020.The map was made using image data obtained by a camera on China's first lunar probe -- the Chang'e 1 -- launched in October 2007.China is one of only a few countries including the United States, Russia, Japan and India to have undertaken a mapping of the moon, according to Chen.
Source : http://www.china.org.cn
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