BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station has formally acquired the capability to receive, process and distribute the data product transmitted from the Landsat-9 satellite, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On March 26, China’s National Earth Observation Data Center (NODA) and National Astronomical Data Center (NADC) published jointly an atlas of remote sensing for World- famous Observatories from Space. The imagery, produced by the Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGSTL), comprises 21 high-resolution remote sensing images captured by its Jilin-1 satellite when observing the Earth.

The following are a batch of historic images showing how China turning its land green by launching key projects such as the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the Farmland-to-Forest Program, as well as the control of the sources of dust storms affecting the cities of Beijing and Tianjin.

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China has received the first batch of data from its newly launched land observation satellite, scientists in charge of the spacecraft said Tuesday.

On March 5, the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station successfully received the first data transmitted from the newly launched land observation satellite L-SAR 01B, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have updated the most widely used chronology model to provide more accurate time scales for lunar and planetary research.