(250321) -- BEIJING, March 21, 2025 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 19, 2024 shows the monitoring facilities of the second phase of the Chinese Meridian Project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. One of China's key scientific infrastructures, the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP), successfully passed national acceptance for its second phase on Friday. It will boost cutting-edge scientific research and provide key support for the country's space weather forecasting services, according to the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The project, also known as the Ground-based Space Environment Monitoring Network, is the world's first comprehensive ground-based monitoring facility to cover Sun-Earth space from the solar atmosphere to near-Earth space. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
