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Thailand
Thai Warship Sinks
More than 100 sailors were rescued and another 31 remain missing following the sinking of a Thai warship in the Gulf of Thailand yesterday. The corvette HTMS Sukhothai went down in strong waves and high winds roughly 20 nautical miles from Bang Saphan. The ship lost power after high winds rocked it hard enough to tilt it to one side, causing seawater to flow into the ship and knock out its power. As the ship was sinking, three other ships and two helicopters were deployed, but only one, the HTMS Kraburi, reached the Sukhothai before it sank. This is the first sinking of a Thai warship since WWII.
This map depicts the route of the Thai naval corvette HTMS Sukhothai to the location where it sank in rough seas yesterday. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: FleetMon
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Germany
New LNG Terminal Opens
On Saturday, Germany opened its first liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal. Located in Wilhelmshaven on Germany's North Sea coast, the 90 kiloton (90,000 tons) Hoegh Esperanza, a shipborn floating terminal, will now be able to supply enough gas to 50,000 households for a year. More liquid gas terminals are expected to pop up following the opening of Hoegh Esperanza, with the country hoping to have some 30 billion cubic meters (~1 trillion cubic feet) of import capacity by the end of 2023. The expansion of LNG terminals comes as a result of Germany's attempt to reduce its dependency on Russian fossil fuels.
This map depicts the location of LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) terminals across Europe. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Space
Martian Sample Depot
NASA’s Perseverance Rover is expected to begin building its first sample depot on another planet in the coming days. The Rover has been collecting samples of Martian dirt, rock, and air within the Jezero Crater since February 2021. Samples collected there will be returned to Earth as early as 2033 through a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) campaign. The first sample depot will consist of 10 sealed titanium sample tubes deposited over the course of about 30 days, collected from a flat part of Jezero’s floor, nicknamed "Three Forks," and will represent the diversity of the crater's rock record. Analyzing the chemical make-up of Martian soils and establishing potential for biological material within its soil is a key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars, paving the way for human exploration of the planet.
This map depicts 21 sample tubes that have been sealed to date by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Samples highlighted in green are being deposited into a depot for eventual pick-up and transportation to Earth for further testing. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What is the depth of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest man-made hole on Earth?
A: 7.5 miles (12,262 m)
At just 9 inches (23 cm) wide, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is situated at an abandoned project site in Murmansk, Russia. During the Cold War, while the US and USSR were in the midst of the Space Race, they were also racing to see which nation could drill as deep as possible into the Earth’s crust. Researchers estimated they would be able to reach around 9 miles (14,500 m) deep, however they were forced to stop drilling at around 7.5 miles when they reached excessively high temperatures. They drilled through rock over 2.7 billion years old at temperatures around 356 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). At such high temperatures, the drill bits and pipes became deformed, although the rocks at such a depth were much more malleable. The hole took 20 years to drill, and once drilling stopped in 1992, the project site was abandoned. Although humans have dug longer boreholes since, the Kola Superdeep Borehole remains the deepest man-made point on Earth.
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Q: Situated on the western bank of the Paraná River, what is Argentina’s third largest city and the birthplace of the 2022 Fifa World Cup champion, Lionel Messi?
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