A CERES-1 carrier rocket carrying a group of satellites blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on March 21, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 7:07 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the Yunyao-1 43-48 satellites into the preset orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 16, 2025 shows a view in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. With the theme "Asia in the changing World: Towards a shared Future," the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from March 25 to 28 in Boao. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
People carry food for the Ramadan street Iftar in Wad Nimair village, south of Dongola, Sudan, March 20, 2025. (Photo by Magdi Abdalla/Xinhua)
This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 21, 2025 shows Shenzhou-19 astronaut Cai Xuzhe performing extravehicular activities outside China's orbiting space station. Members of the Shenzhou-19 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's third series of extravehicular activities (EVAs) at 8:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua/Li Minggang)
A researcher walks past the Space Environment Prediction Center at the Meridian Project Integrated Information and Operations Control Center in Huairou District of Beijing, capital of China, March 20, 2025. One of China's key scientific infrastructures, the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP), successfully passed national acceptance for its second phase on Friday. It will boost cutting-edge scientific research and provide key support for the country's space weather forecasting services, according to the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The project, also known as the Ground-based Space Environment Monitoring Network, is the world's first comprehensive ground-based monitoring facility to cover Sun-Earth space from the solar atmosphere to near-Earth space. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
An aerial drone photo provided by Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) shows Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki after eruption in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, March 21, 2025. The volcano, located in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted late Thursday night and continued into Friday, prompting the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation to raise the alert status to the highest level.
The eruption released a column of ash up to 8,000 meters high before midnight on Thursday. The gray-to-black cloud was dispersed southwest and west of the crater. The strong eruption continued into Friday morning, with a column of ash reaching 2,500 meters. Thick gray clouds moved westward from the volcano.
The volcano's alert level has been elevated to the highest level, or Level IV, since Thursday. (BASARNAS/Handout via Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows blooming cole flowers at Jiangling scenic spot in Wuyuan County, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
Tourists enjoy the spring scenery at a park in Quanjiao County, east China's Anhui Province, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Ji Chengjun/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 21, 2025 shows a view of the factory of the BOMESC Offshore Engineering Company Limited in Tianjin, north China. In recent years, Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin has optimized the business environment for private economy to accelerate its development. In 2024, the Economy Value Added of private economy in the area has increased by 9.1 percent year-on-year. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
This photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows a view of the Fox Glacier on the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand. The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, and March 21 of each year as the World Day for Glaciers. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)
A boy waits for bus in the snow with flowers in hands in Nuuk, Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, March 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Peng Ziyang)
