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China begins construction of wide-field survey telescope Xinhua 12 May 2021, 18:18 GMT+10 XINING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists are building a large survey telescope with a wide field and high resolution in northwest China's Qinghai Province. The telescope will be able to survey the entire sky from the Northern Hemisphere. Construction of the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), an optical instrument measuring 2.5 meters in diameter, has already started in Lenghu Town, which has an average altitude of approximately 4,200 meters. The town is known as China's "Mars Camp" due to its eeri...

A traveller’s ‘Marco Polo’ moment in Xinjiang, China, in search of a southern route skirting the Taklamakan Desert The Taklamakan Desert in China's Xinjiang province. Photo: Shutterstock The rim of Xinjiang's Taklamakan Desert is probably one of the world's most difficult places to play I Spy: "t" for "telegraph pole", "d" for "dune", and "s" for "sand", "stones", or "sky", all in shades of khaki. There's little else to be seen. Wind-blown dunes snuggle up to the road and threaten to engulf it, and on both sides the flat, toneless scrub and sand seem limitless. This is everyone's idea ...