{"id":525829,"date":"2026-03-08T02:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:04:13","slug":"chinese-scientists-use-ai-model-to-crack-mystery-of-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525829\/","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":525830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[256,64,63,115764,512,5225,261594,261593,4935,261596,128,219540,117731,285,261592,261595],"class_list":{"0":"post-525829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-change-6","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","14":"tag-kaguya","15":"tag-luna-programme","16":"tag-moon","17":"tag-nature-sensors","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-shanghai-institute-of-technical-physics","20":"tag-south-pole-aitken-basin","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-tongji-university","23":"tag-us-apollo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}