Lop Nur was once a huge lake surrounded by fertile ... By 1972 it was bone dry and had been swallowed up in the “sea of death” of the Gobi desert. Now there are fears that the tragedy of ...

China’s spaceplane, named Shenlong, touched down late Thursday (Friday in Bejing) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert ... Region known as Lop Nur, around 9:10 p.m. ET ...

Last week one of China's most reliable rockets, the Long March 2F vehicle, took off from a spaceport in the Gobi Desert carrying ... in western China known as Lop Nur. The current flight launched ...

The “reusable experiment spacecraft” launched from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert atop of a Long ... the spaceplane was due to pass over the Lop Nur base in Xinjiang, the reported site for the ...

China carried out the second launch of its “reusable experimental spacecraft” from Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert atop a ... likely to land at the Lop Nur base in Xinjiang. Satellite imagery ...

The travellers were reportedly attempting to cross the Xinjiang Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve, a dry lake in a desert located in north-western China when the tragedy happened.

A beautiful desert that is as pretty as the Sahara bears one striking difference - it's not covered in sand, but is made up of rocky terrain.The Gobi Desert is a large region in northern China and ...

One of the global keystone projects for the Zoo is in the Gobi Desert ecosystem of southeastern Mongolia. The Gobi Desert is a world away from the Southern California deserts, a cold desert versus ...