Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin)...

1,030 to 1,040 m (3,380 to 3,410 ft), while the Lop Nur in the southeast is only 250 m lower. The Lop Desert is on the whole flat, but with three slightly...

by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade...

spoken in Lop County, China Lop Desert, a desert in China Lop Nur, a group of small, now seasonal salt lake sand marshes Lop rabbit, several breeds of rabbits...

Kroraïna and is used to refer to the city near the brackish desert lake Lop Nur as well as the kingdom. The kingdom was renamed Shanshan (鄯善) after its...

Hami–Lop Nur railway or Haluo railway (simplified Chinese: 哈罗铁路; traditional Chinese: 哈羅鐵路; pinyin: hāluó tiělù), is a railway in the eastern part of...

Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve (simplified Chinese: 罗布泊野骆驼国家级自然保护区; traditional Chinese: 羅布泊野駱駝國家級自然保護區; pinyin: Luóbùpō yě luòtuó guójiā...

the Tian Shan and Kunlun Mountains. The river historically terminated at Lop Nur, but today reaches no further than Taitema Lake before drying out. It is...

being atmospheric. All tests were conducted in the remote location of Lop Nur, Xinjiang. The US, France and Great Britain have code-named their test...

conducted 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, all conducted at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang) 596 First test – October...

depressions of that area, the other two being Karakoshun Lake (喀拉库顺湖) and Lop Nur. For about 1,500 years before 1921, the Tarim River poured into Taitema...

One Satellite" program. The device was detonated at Lop Nur Test Base, or often dubbed as Lop Nur Nuclear Weapon Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang, on 17...

Currently, there are only around 950 wild Bactrian camels. Most live on the Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve in China, and a smaller population lives...

detonated in Lop Nur (code-name "Test No. 6"). On September 22, 1969, China's first underground nuclear test was successfully detonated in Lop Nur. On April...

Jonathan McDowell, the spacecraft's landing site was an airbase located at Lop Nur, China. On 7 September 2020, commercial satellite reconnaissance company...

小河公主) or Little River Princess was found in 2003 at Xiaohe Cemetery in Lop Nur, Xinjiang. She is one of the Tarim mummies, and is known as M11 for the...

transparency. China tested its first nuclear weapon device ("596") in 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. The weapon was developed as a deterrent against both the United...

took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. Tests continued until 1996, when the country signed the Comprehensive...

toward Charkilik, and Loulan was abandoned. The Tarim ended at the now-dry Lop Nur, which occupied a shifting position east of Loulan. Eastward is the fabled...

Wasteland: the destruction of the Hamoun Oasis". Earth Observatory. NASA. "Lop Nur". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-11-26. Wyatt, Dennis (2021-08-28)...

Toksun County and Yuli County, northwest of the former Lake Lop Nur. The Qinggir region in Lop Nur is used for vertical shaft nuclear weapons testing. "Qinggir...

sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in...

Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur. The kingdom was originally an independent city-state, known in local Gandhari...

archaeologists working on a film about the Silk Road. The mummy was discovered near Lop Nur. She was buried 3 feet beneath the ground. The mummy was extremely well...

known as Ördek's Necropolis, is a Bronze Age site located in the west of Lop Nur, in Xinjiang, Western China. It contains about 330 tombs, about 160 of...

789 ft) above sea-level). To the south of the Kuruk-tagh lie the desert of Lop Nur, the Kum-tagh desert, and the valley of the Bulunzir-gol. To this great...

encountered Qinghai Lake, which they called the West Sea, and the lakes Lop Nur and Bostang in Xinjiang. The Han dynasty expanded beyond the traditional...

grammatical as well as lexical features are extant in the modern Yellow Uyghur, Lop Nur Uyghur and Khalaj (all of which are endangered); Khalaj, for instance,...

D-21 drone, similar in design to the Blackbird, was built to overfly the Lop Nur nuclear test facility in China. This drone was launched from the back of...

pod that could be dropped into the Taklamakan Desert, near the Chinese Lop Nur nuclear test site. The pod was intended to deploy an antenna after landing...