China Releases ‘World's Highest’ Resolution Pictures of Moon

China released a set of "world's highest resolution" lunar images taken by its second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface.

China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) published a set of full coverage map of the Moon and its images with a resolution of seven meters captured by Chang'e-2.

The map and images are the world's highest-resolution lunar images ever published that cover all of the moon, state runs Xinhua news agency quoted Liu Dongkui, deputy chief commander of China's lunar probe project.

The images were photographed by a charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera on Chang'e-2 from the heights of 100 km and 15 km over the lunar surface between October 2010 and May 2011.