People clear up the rubbles of damaged buildings after the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 11, 2024. Israel continued to pursue offensives in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing forward with its military objectives on the two fronts. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2024 shows a rainbow above a village in Zhonglu Township of Danba County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Lyu Mingxiang/Xinhua)
This stitched photo shows the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) under construction in Jiangmen, south China's Guangdong Province, Oct. 9, 2024. China has constructed the world's largest transparent spherical detector 700 meters underground to capture elusive neutrinos, often dubbed "ghost particles," to unravel the secrets of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely vast in the universe.
The 12-story-tall acrylic sphere with a diameter of 35.4 meters, buried deep in a granite layer of a hill in Kaiping, Jiangmen City in south China's Guangdong Province, is the core part of JUNO, a gigantic and complex scientific facility. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2024 shows the northern lights over Mudanjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Northern lights were observed at different places across Heilongjiang in the early morning on Friday. (Photo by Wang Baoxun/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024 shows the S500 buoyant airborne turbine (BAT) working up in the air generating power in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. China's domestically developed buoyant airborne turbine (BAT) reached a record height on Thursday in central China's Hubei Province, harnessing stronger, steadier winds from higher altitudes to generate power. (Beijing SAWES Energy Technology Co., Ltd./Handout via Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024 shows migratory birds flying over a section of the Yellow River in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
A cargo ship carrying containers docks at the Port of Mersin, Türkiye, Oct. 11, 2024. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
Zheng Qinwen celebrates after the women's singles quarterfinal match between Zheng Qinwen of China and Jasmine Paolini of Italy at the 2024 Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
China successfully retrieved its first reusable and returnable test satellite, Shijian-19, at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 10:39 a.m. (Beijing Time), Oct. 11, 2024, said the China National Space Administration (CNSA). All the returnable payloads in fields like plant and microorganism breeding, autonomous control and new technology validation, space science experiments, as well as social welfare and cultural innovation, have been retrieved smoothly, said the CNSA. (Photo by Wang Heng/Xinhua)
