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United States
Helene’s Path of Destruction
The remnants of Hurricane Helene have caused widespread damage in the southeastern United States, with North Carolina and Tennessee being hard hit over the weekend. Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast late Thursday night. Since that time, it pushed its way northward through Georgia and brought record rainfall and flooding to the western half of North Carolina and eastern portions of Tennessee. North Carolina’s Asheville metro area was among the worst hit, with many roads in the area completely destroyed by flooding. Compounded with near-total power outages and a lack of mobile phone service, updates out of the area are spotty. Helene’s death toll since landfall has reached more than 100, a number which could go higher.
This map depicts river flood stages in western North Carolina and nearby Tennessee following rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. Click on the map to learn more.
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Nepal
Nearly 200 Killed in Floods
Floods and landslides provoked by heavy rainfall have killed at least 193 people in Nepal. The capital of Kathmandu, which was inundated on Sunday, remains inaccessible as landslides and debris block three highways going into the city. On one cut-off road, around 30 people were killed by a landslide while they were sleeping in their cars for temporary shelter. As of Monday, the weather has calmed, and rescue efforts are underway. An estimated 31 people are still missing, with 96 injured. South Asia’s monsoon season begins in July and ends in September. Nearby Bangladesh has also experienced flooding in low-lying areas in the north, resulting from heavy rain, with an estimated 60,000 people impacted.
This map depicts the accumulated rainfall in Nepal and surrounding countries over three days ending of September 28. Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, has seen some of the highest rain records. Click on the map to learn more.
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Space
Biggest Map of the Milky Way
In a monumental achievement, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope have created the most comprehensive infrared map of the Milky Way, featuring over 1.5 billion cosmic objects. This map, derived from 500 terabytes of data collected over 13 years, reveals hidden stars, moving celestial bodies, and distant clusters. This record-breaking map comprises 200,000 images taken by ESO’s VISTA ― the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. Located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the telescope’s main purpose is to map large areas of the sky. The team used VISTA’s infrared camera VIRCAM, which can peer through the dust and gas throughout our galaxy that previously obscured many objects. The images were combined to form a giant map that contains ten times the number of objects as a previous 2012 image of the Milky Way.
This map depicts a portion of the largest-ever map of the Milky Way recently released by astronomers. Click on the map to learn more.
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Teen Completes Intricate Fantasy City Map After 7 Years!
An English teen spent the last seven years creating a fantasy city map and even wrote travel guides and history books about it. Jake Shipsmith, 14, has been working on this map since he was seven years old and just completed it on September 8th. The map, made of nine pieces of A3 paper, is ten feet long and three feet wide (3m long x 1m wide) and is a testament to Jake’s love of history and geography. The city of Ty-taniam, pronounced “titanium,” has several sections spanning different historical periods, including a Tudor town, a Roman city, and Medieval villages. His parents, Jonathan Shipsmith, 52, and James Shipsmith, 52, have also contributed to the map, as have Jake’s twin sister Leonie and some of his primary school classmates. Read more.
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Q: What mountain range lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Anatolian Plateau?
A: Taurus Mountains
The Taurus Mountains are a mountain range in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. Aladağ (10,935 feet [3,333 m]) in the Taurus proper and Mount Erciyes in the outlying offshoot of the Nur Mountains are the highest peaks; many other peaks reach between 10,000 and 12,000 feet (3,000–3,700 m). Scattered forests of pine, cedar, oak, and juniper are found on the slopes up to 8,000 feet (2,500 m). Of the passageways crossing the mountains, the Cilician Gates (Külek Boğazı) is the most famous, having been used by caravans and armies since antiquity.
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Q: What plateau is called the “Third Pole” because its ice fields contain most fresh water outside the polar regions?
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