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China is Building Its Own Area 51In a remote patch of desert, hundreds of miles away from any city, China is building a secret airfield that inspires a comparison to Area 51."I think we're observing what appears to be a pretty important facility for China's military space activities that appears to be growing," said Ankit Panda of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to NPR. The area's remoteness makes it perfect to test secret planes.In 2020, satellite photo revealed that China landed a new and highly classified "space plane"."Atmospheric aircraft, high-altitude aircraft, high-altitude drones, potential bombers, other experimental aircraft," Panda added. "You know the sort of stuff that the United States might be accused of testing at a site like Area 51."#Area51 #airfield #militarybase #airfield #satelliteimagery #UFOImage: Maxar Technologies

Huge Antarctic Lake Disappeared in Just 3 Days, Dumped 26 Billion Cubic Feet of Water Into the OceanIt took only 3 days for a huge lake in the Antarctic to disappear! In June 2019, the ice shelf beneath the lake collapsed, sending an estimated 21 to 26 billion cubic feet (736 million cubic meter) of water into the ocean.Glaciologist Roland Warner of the University of Tasmania was monitoring the wildfires in Australia when he decided to take a look at satellite imagery to the south. "Looking down to Antarctica, for a break from watching the destruction, I noticed a spell of several clear days on Amery Ice Shelf and decided to see how the summer surface melt season was progressing," he tells Vice. "The collapsed surface feature caught my eye."Just to give you an idea of the scale, 21 to 26 billion cubic feet of water is twice the volume of the San Diego Bay, or is about 295,000 Olympic size swimming pool!#Antarctica #iceshelf #satelliteimagery #ocean #lake #ClimateChangeImage: Geophysical Research Letters