{"id":28581,"date":"2024-12-09T03:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28581"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:58:43","slug":"lonar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lonar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Lonar Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lonar Lake:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a lake of lagoon in the Buldhana district of <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong> state.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>created due to a meteorite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>only known saline crater lake in the world<\/strong>, formed by the impact of a meteorite about 50,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Its water is <strong>seven times saltier than seawater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The lake has a diameter of 1.2 kilometers and a depth of 150 meters, and is surrounded by a rim of hills that rise up to 75 degrees.<\/li>\n<li>One of the most <strong>striking aspects is its color<\/strong>, which <strong>changes from green to pink depending on the season and the water conditions<\/strong>. This is caused by the presence of microorganisms that thrive in the saline and alkaline environment of the lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a meteorite?<\/h3>\n<p>A meteorite is a fragment of rock or metal from space that survives its passage through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and lands on the surface. Meteorites originate from celestial bodies such as asteroids, comets, or even planets and provide valuable insights into the early solar system&#8217;s composition and history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/maharashtra-govt-steps-up-efforts-to-get-unesco-tag-for-lonar-lake-124120900070_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maharashtra govt steps up efforts to get Unesco tag for Lonar lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonar Lake is a lake of lagoon in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}