• Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang...
  • Lop Nur has been used as a nuclear testing site, and since the discovery of potash at the site in the mid-1990s it is also the location of a large-scale mining operation.
  • In 1964, Lop Nur was the site of the first successful thermonuclear fission test by the Peoples Republic of China, a project which was blandly codenamed “596”.
    • Geospatial Intelligence: Assessing Recent Developments at China's Lop Nur Nuclear
    • Nuclear Test at Lop Nur
    • Amazing scenery of Yardang landform in Lop Nur, China's Xinjiang
  • Doğu kısmı bir tuz çölü'dür. 1971 yılından beri kurumuş olan Lop Nur tuz gölünden geriye kalan bölgedir. ...devamı.
  • 1952'de, terminal gölü, Tarim Nehri ve Konque Nehri insan müdahalesi ile ayrıldığında Taitema Gölü'ne geçti ve Lop Nur 1964'te tekrar kurudu.
  • By 1959, the PRC chose Lop Nur as the area to test its nuclear weapons devices (John Lewis and Xue Litai, China Builds the Bomb, p. 177).
    • Basin of Lop Nur by satellite.
    • Satellite picture of the Basin of the former sea Lop Nur in the Desert of Lop.
    • Satellite image of a factory of Potassium chloride in Lop Nur.
  • Administratively, the lake is in Lop Nur town, also known as Luozhong of Ruoqiang County, which in its turn is pa...