The possible oil well sits deep within the Taklamakan desert Credit: Google Maps. China began gaining an interest in rocketry and missiles before the launch of Russia's Sputnik in 1957.

News; Weird News; Weird Science; Google Maps users convinced they've found secret rocket hidden deep in desert After spotting the odd-looking site deep in the Taklamakan desert people think they ...

China has defied the limits of engineering by constructing a railway across the Taklamakan Desert, one of the largest and most dangerous shifting-sand deserts on Earth. This high-risk, high-reward ...

China has created a 3,000-kilometer-long green belt of trees surrounding the Taklamakan Desert to combat sandstorms and desertification. Initiated in 1978 as part of the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

Satellite image from April 19, 2024, show Chinese mock-ups of what appear to be US aircraft in the Taklamakan Desert.Planet Labs PBC ...

Taklamakan_desert (Pravit on Wikipedia) Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. When we think about the deserts of the world, water abundance is one of the last things that come to ...

A traveller’s search for a route around western China's Lop Desert, in 1995, meant bartering for rides and avoiding rip-off merchants in towns with such evocative names as ‘Asbestos Deposit’.