{"id":31851,"date":"2025-04-08T02:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31851"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:50:13","slug":"three-gorges-antarctic-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/three-gorges-antarctic-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Gorges Antarctic Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Three Gorges Antarctic Eye Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>China has recently launched the &#8220;Three Gorges Antarctic Eye,&#8221; a 3.2-metre aperture radio\/millimetre-wave telescope, at the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<h2>About Three Gorges Antarctic Eye<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>3.2-metre radio\/millimeter-wave telescope<\/strong>, located at <strong>Zhongshan Station<\/strong>, Antarctica.<\/li>\n<li>It builds upon China\u2019s earlier achievements, such as the <strong>Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> Studying interstellar gas (hydrogen and ammonia), star formation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenge overcome:<\/strong> Built to withstand Antarctica&#8217;s extreme cold and strong winds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by:<\/strong> China Three Gorges University and Shanghai Normal University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Related Observatories<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Observatory<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Country<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>INO (India-based Neutrino Observatory)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>India<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Located in <strong>Theni, Tamil Nadu<\/strong>, to study <strong>solar and atmospheric neutrinos<\/strong>. Jointly funded by <strong>DAE and DST<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>IceCube Neutrino Observatory<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>USA (South Pole)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Located at <strong>Amundsen\u2013Scott South Pole Station<\/strong>, it studies <strong>cosmic neutrinos<\/strong> using deep ice as a detector.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>It will become operational in <strong>late 2025<\/strong>, studying <strong>neutrinos from Earth and the sun<\/strong>, ahead of the US\u2019s <strong>DUNE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>It will be operational around <strong>2030<\/strong>, focuses on <strong>neutrino oscillation and supernova bursts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>TRIDENT (Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Positioned in the <strong>South China Sea<\/strong>, aims to study <strong>deep-sea neutrino activity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Three Gorges Antarctic Eye FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the Three Gorges Antarctic Eye?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans<\/strong>: A Chinese-built 3.2-metre radio\/millimeter-wave telescope, located at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>What is the Three Gorges Dam?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> China\u2019s 22.5 GW hydropower project on the Yangtze River, the world\u2019s largest power station by capacity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202504\/08\/content_WS67f45d3bc6d0868f4e8f17cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ENG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.2m radio\/millimeter-wave telescope at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica, advancing China&#8217;s Antarctic astronomy after successes like AST3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31851","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\/31851","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=31851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}