{"id":811817,"date":"2026-03-08T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/811817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:19:26","slug":"chinese-scientists-use-ai-model-to-crack-mystery-of-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/811817\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists use AI model to crack mystery of moon\u2019s far side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese scientists have used AI to determine the chemical make-up of the moon\u2019s far side, offering new insights into one of lunar science\u2019s enduring mysteries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nearly half the moon\u2019s surface \u2013 the far side which permanently faces away from the Earth \u2013 had long remained chemically unmapped.<\/p>\n<p>But samples from <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3267939\/chinas-change-6-moon-mission-returns-earth-historic-lunar-far-side-cargo?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 mission<\/a>, combined with advanced technologies, have enabled a team led by the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP) to crack the lunar chemical code.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Researchers from SITP, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, teamed up with peers from Tongji University in Shanghai and several other Chinese institutes for the study.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It enabled the creation of the first high-precision global distribution map of major oxides on the moon, according to findings published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sensors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe study revealed the exposure characteristics of deep materials in the South Pole-Aitken basin and the compositional patterns of far-side lunar terrains,\u201d SITP said in a statement this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have used AI to determine the chemical make-up of the moon\u2019s far side, offering new insights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3844],"tags":[323,154903,1395,17854,234363,234362,1497,234365,70,234366,156128,413,193487,16,15,234364],"class_list":["post-811817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ai","tag-change-6","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-kaguya","tag-luna-programme","tag-moon","tag-nature-sensors","tag-science","tag-shanghai-institute-of-technical-physics","tag-south-pole-aitken-basin","tag-space","tag-tongji-university","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-apollo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116192579960800361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}