On the other hand, it takes 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds for the Sun to appear in the same spot in the sky above Mars (aka. a solar day), compared to the 24 hour solar day we experience here on Earth. This means that, based on the length of a Martian day, a Martian year works out ...
On the day of the race in 1983, Cliff Young, a toothless 61-year-old farmer and amateur runner, wearing rubber boots, and much older than the other runners, was in attendance . No one paid any attention to this odd looking man who might as well have been invisible . The assembled ...
On September 30,the eighth Martyrs' Day(烈士纪念日)in China,a touching and patriotic(爱国的)film -- The Battle at Lake Changjin was on. (1) More than 70 years ago,the Chinese people's volunteer army moved across the Yalu River. (2) The battle(战斗) at Lake Changjin was one of th...
On a recent sunny day 13000 chickens roam over Larry Browns 40 windswept acres in Shiner,Texas. Some rest in the shade of a parked car. Others drink water with the cows. This all seems random, but it’s by design, part of what the $ 6.1 billion US. egg industry bets will be its...
The flight of Chen and his teammates is also expected tomarkthe beginning of a decade where, barring (除非) no accidents, there will be Chinese people inouter spaceevery day. 陈和他的队友们的飞行也预计标志着一个十年...
Dragon Boat Festival: How did the ancients use mugwort to prevent disease?Mugwort is hung on the door of a resident's home during Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo provided to China Daily]During ...
On a bright September day in the French Alps in 2022,John McAvoy was 38 kilometres into a very exhausting ultramarathon through rough mountain paths.Battling tiredness,he pushed his body and mind through the final leg of the race.With the finish arch in the famous town of Chamonix just four...
Just as the first bands of heavy rain fell on Los Angeles, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake — unrelated to the tropical storm — struck northwest of the city at 2:41 p.m. Pacific time. There were no reports of major damage or injuries, but an estimated 12 million people live in the region...
The world-changing event has at last been linked with the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir of the Kuril Islands, an uninhibited strip of land barely 59 kilometers (37 miles) in length located between Russia and Japan. Today there is lots of earthquake activity in the Kuril region. ...
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