Yangtze River Network News (correspondent Huang Aiwu Zhao Jiatong) On April 24, the main event of the 9th "China Aerospace Day" was held in Wuhan. "Beidou" networking, "Chang'e" takes the moon, "Tianwen" explores fire, and "Tianhe" travels to the stars...... Looking up at the starry sky, the ancient Chinese had an infinite yearning for it. On April 24, 1970, China's first artificial earth satellite Dongfanghong 1 was successfully launched, which opened the prelude to the use of scientific means by Chinese to carry out space exploration.
As the most similar planet to Earth in the solar system, Mars has also become the most likely celestial body to have life, which has been attracting people's attention and attracting countless scientists to follow suit. As of this year, Professor Xiao Long of the School of Earth Sciences of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) has conducted a ten-year study on the geological analogy of Mars in the Qaidam Basin on the mainland, opening a window for human beings to understand Mars on Earth.
Exploring the geology of Mars is of great significance for studying the natural evolution direction of the earth and predicting the earth's geological and climatic conditions. The distance between the Earth and Mars, and the unpredictable space environment, require a lot of manpower and material resources to study the Martian environment directly. The analogy study of Martian geology has become one of the main and most cost-effective research methods in the academic community.
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At present, planetary scientists around the world have established more than 30 similarity Mars research bases. From the perspective of evolution and climate and landform, the Qaidam Basin in China is the most representative Mars-like environment.
As the leader of the mainland planetary geology, Professor Xiao Long established the first Institute of Planetary Science, filling the gap in this field in China. In the past ten years, in order to understand the geological and geomorphological evolution of Mars and explore whether the Martian environment has the conditions to preserve life, Professor Xiao Long's team has explored the geological and climatic environment evolution process of Mars by comparing the geological and geomorphological characteristics of Mars with similar characteristics of the Earth. At the same time, the team also demonstrated that the conditions of the area as a research base for Mars-like landforms have been recognized by the international community. At present, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) has established a sub-center of Planetary Geological Exploration and Research of the Joint Research Center for Deep Space Exploration of the Ministry of Education to carry out research on Mars exploration data processing and scientific application.
Since its establishment, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) has always responded to the national development strategy, walked with the country, gave full play to the characteristics of disciplines and scientific research advantages, and actively provided scientific and technological and talent support for "going to the sky, entering the earth, going to the sea, and ascending to the pole".
Scientific and technological innovation and popularization of science are the two wings of innovation and development, and it is necessary to put scientific popularization in the same important position as scientific and technological innovation. While attaching importance to scientific and technological innovation, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) also relies on the advantages of geoscience characteristics to continuously improve the ability and level of science popularization services, and create a "never-ending" feast of geoscience science popularization.
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) attaches great importance to and supports Professor Xiao Long's research on Martian geological analogy in the Qaidam Basin, and specially appoints Professor Huang Aiwu's team to go to the Qaidam Basin for scientific investigation, follow-up scientific communication, and shoot a popular science documentary "The Window of Human Exploration of Mars - The Secret of Qaidam Basin", which describes the significance and phased results of Mars geological analogy research to the public in easy-to-understand language.
"The Window of Human Exploration of Mars - The Secret of Qaidam Basin" verifies the rationality of Qaidam Basin as one of the main geological analogy research sites on Mars, and highlights the results of Professor Xiao Long's team from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) who have been deeply involved in the Qaidam Basin for ten years in the study of Martian geological analogy.
Editor: Xie Yuan
Duty Officer: Wang Chong
Editor-in-Chief on duty: Chen Zhiyuan