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Why is the hottest place not the equator?
What is the hottest place on Earth? A lot of people think that the equator is the hottest place, because the area of the equatorial sun shines all year round. Actually…
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10 things not everyone knows about the wind
The air always moves from where there is high pressure to where the air is low. The movement of air produces wind.
Space science
Detecting water in the Martian equator
This result reinforces the belief in cosmologists in the journey to find water and life on Mars.
Space science
Oxia: The land is first conquered on Mars
Scientists are building specialized robots sent to Mars to explore Mars's special equatorial region called Oxia Planum.
Space science
Indonesia launches satellite tracking maritime traffic
Xinhua news agency reported that Indonesia is planning to launch Lapan A2 satellite to monitor traffic on its vast seas.
Space science
The meteor shower appears this weekend
Astronomers will have the opportunity to see streaks of magic light when Orionid meteor shower peaks in the next two days.
Space science
Gravity Earth causes the Moon to deform
According to scientists, Earth's gravity causes the Moon to transform, making the Moon's equatorial area swell up.
Biology
The scavenger flowers bloom again
This exotic flower originates from equatorial tropical forests in Sumatra Province, western Indonesia, and is technically named Indonesia's Giant Calf Tree (Amorphophall…
Animal world
Marvel at giant frogs, 1m long, 8kg heavy
They live a lot in the equatorial forests of West Africa, where there are fast flowing rivers and tropical forests, hot and humid all year round.
Environment
Seawater affects global temperatures
The US scientist said that the temperature of the ocean in the Pacific equator could affect global temperatures in each stage, contrary to skepticism about the global wa…
Environment
El Nino weather phenomenon may soon appear
The national weather forecast agency on 5/7 said that El Nino weather phenomenon can form in the equatorial Pacific region in the last 6 months of 2012.
Environment
Equatorial Earth has been covered by glaciers
A recent study found that the Earth equator with wet characteristics was covered by an ice layer about 700 million years ago.
Environment
Unusual at the equatorial ozone layer
On January 4, the Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency (EXA) warned that ozone levels in the stratosphere in the equatorial area had dropped dramatically in recent years, espec…
Environment
Earth's stealth equator
British scientists claim that the atmosphere of the northern and southern hemispheres is separated by a huge chemical band in the western Pacific.
Environment
Scientists debate the evolution of El Nino
The anomalies of the sea surface temperature (SST / Sea Surface Temperature) were reduced when approaching the equatorial Pacific region during January 2007. However, th…