Beijing – Three students from the University of Cagliari are participating in the “Joint Lunar Map Drawing Project by Italian and Chinese College Students”, a research program on the topography and composition of the lunar surface for which the Sardinian university is involved with the TELEGIS Laboratory of the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences. On Tuesday, November 24 comes to an end the first visit by Italian researchers and students in some of the Chinese research centers involved in the project: the Universities of Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. Claudia Collu, Valentino Demurtas and Sabrina Podda, first-year students of the degree course in Computer and Geological Sciences, accompanied by Maria Teresa Melis, are at the Beijing Space Center and the Shanghai Space Center. The project is part of the bilateral agreement signed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, PR China (MOST) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and is coordinated by the Italian Space Agency for Italy and the National Remote Sensing Center of China. (9Colonne)
