Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Wednesday completed the main antenna installation for the country's first Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS) radio telescope at the Bosscha Observatory in Bandung, West Java Province.
A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a scientific breakthrough that could be crucial for future explorations of the planet, including China's ambitious Mars sample-return mission.
Chinese researchers have identified a green sea turtle nesting site at Yongshu Reef, part of the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea, according to an ecological and environmental research station under the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The discovery was made during routine ecological monitoring work, when scientific staff found an approximately 30 cm-deep, irregular, circular depression in the sandy area of Yongshu Reef, surrounded by disturbed sand particles.
A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission from the moon's far side have unveiled the volcanic activity, ancient magnetic field, water content and geochemical characteristics of the moon mantle, shedding the first light on the evolutionary history of its dark side. Four studies by the research teams from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), the National Astronomical Observatories, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing University, and other institutions were published in the latest issue of Nature.
The International Deep Space Exploration Association (IDSEA), an international academic organization dedicated to deep space exploration, was officially launched on Monday in Hefei. This association was jointly initiated by the Hefei-based Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration, the Chinese Society of Astronautics, the Chinese Society of Space Research and the French initiative "Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061." The founding of the IDSEA was also co-sponsored by 20 academicians from China and 31 international scientists.
Chinese scientists have developed a dataset on cultivated pastures of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau using satellite remote sensing data to enhance ecological protection of "the roof of the world." The study about the dataset was conducted by researchers from Lanzhou University, Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the findings published in the journal Earth System Science Data.
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