{"id":244713,"date":"2026-10-01T01:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/china-to-complete-geological-map-of-mars-by-2028"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:32:21","slug":"china-to-complete-geological-map-of-mars-by-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/china-to-complete-geological-map-of-mars-by-2028","title":{"rendered":"China to Complete Geological Map of Mars by 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-to-complete-geological-map-of-mars-by-2028.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China plans to complete a geological map of the entire planet Mars by the end of 2028. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.xinhuanet.com\/20260928\/fa8603b88e9f4490b0a2d4951c987ee4\/c.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua News Agency<\/a>, a partner of TV BRICS.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hou Zengqian<\/b>, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the Tianwen-3 mission, spoke about the plans. According to him, based on the new data, experts will develop a Chinese system for the geological periodisation of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Research by the Zhurong rover has shown that around 3.5 billion years ago, an ancient ocean of continental scale existed on Mars. Scientists have also discovered evidence of a possible short-lived flood that may have occurred around 1.6 billion years ago. This data will be used in the compilation of the new map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China plans to complete a geological map of the entire planet Mars by the end of 2028. This was reported by Xinhua News Agency, a partner of TV BRICS. Hou Zengqian, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the Tianwen-3 mission, spoke about the plans. According to him, based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}