Lop Nur
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Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Satellite picture of the Basin of the former sea of Lop Nur; the concentric shorelines of the vanished lake are visible.
Mushroom cloud of the first Chinese nuclear weapon test, Project 596, at Lop Nur in 1964
Mask from second millennium BCE
Lop Desert
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The Lop Desert, or the Lop Depression, is a desert extending from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruk-tagh to the former terminal Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Satellite picture of the Lop Desert with the basin of the former sea Lop Nur. In the left Kuruk-tagh, in the right Astin-tagh.
Satellite picture of the Lop Desert with the basin of the former Lop Nur Sea. The ear-shaped depression is the Lop Nur dried basin.