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Marvel at dozens of glowing flying objects moving at an altitude of 12 km
Many flying objects glow, move in formation and then suddenly disappear in the airspace between Taiwan (China) and Hong Kong.
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The troposphere of the atmosphere is gradually rising due to climate change
Atmospheric measurements collected by weather balloons in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 40 years show that climate change is pushing the upper boundary of the tr…
Conquer Mars
NASA robot captures Mars moon at an altitude of 23,458km
The Perseverance robot observed Deimos, Mars' 12.4-kilometer-wide moon, on the rare occasion of pointing the camera up at the sky.
Scientific works
The world's largest upland human gene bank
China has launched a bank to store more than 120,000 human genetic samples on the Tibetan plateau to support research on altitude sickness.
Life
People on high mountains are unlikely to get Covid-19 virus
Scientists found that people living at high altitudes were less susceptible to heavy Covid-19, because their bodies adapted to the low oxygen content in the blood.
Environment
The scientists recorded noctilucent clouds at an altitude of 80km
Clouds of blue and white light form in the middle stratum, where most of the meteors were burned down to Earth.
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Lower airplanes can reduce climate impacts by 59%
Getting airplanes lower than just 610 meters can cut the climate impact of the areas they fly in by a whopping 59%.
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Why don't commercial planes fly higher into space?
The higher the flight, the more fuel-efficient the aircraft is, the faster and quieter it flies. But they can't fly into space because of some design limitations.
Space science
Japanese spacecraft dropped the last robot on the asteroid
Hayabusa 2 dropped MINERVA-II2, a robot whose main task was to study the gravity of the asteroid Ryugu, before returning to Earth.
Space science
Milky Way galaxy beautiful, fanciful under the perspective of the cockpit
With the view from the cockpit window, the altitude above the clouds, under the starry sky and the stars, the Milky Way galaxy appears splendid, enchanting.
Animal world
The tallest flying bird in the world
The special body structure helps the goose-headed goose fly at an altitude of nearly 8,000 meters to migrate across the Himalayas.
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What is the special 1.770m 'in cloud' airport of China?
China Xinhua News reported that China has inaugurated the Yushan Airport in Chongqing at 1,770m above sea level.
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What happens when you fall free from an airplane at an altitude of thousands of meters?
There have been cases of surviving after free fall from an aircraft at an altitude of 9.1km. However, if you really become a victim of this disaster, how many percent ch…
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Little known things about the most flat country in the world
Maldives is made up of about 1,200 islands with altitudes not exceeding 2.4 meters above sea level.
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The burnt meteorite lit up the sky of Brazil
Meteorites rush through the atmosphere at an altitude of about 36km above the Atlantic Ocean.