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[3] The second deepest is the Dragon Hole, or Longdong, in the South China Sea at 300.89 metres (987 ft) deep, [4] while the third deepest blue hole in the world is Dean's Blue Hole at 202 metres (663 ft) , located in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. Other blue holes are about half that depth at around 100–120 metres (330 ...
Its name means deep water in the Mayan language and, at over 420 metres (1,380 ft) deep, it is the deepest known blue hole. [1] Blue holes generate a distinctive blue color when seen from above and are typically only a few dozen meters deep. It was discovered in about 2003 by a local diver who followed a grouper that went into its mouth. The ...
Lighthouse Reef as seen from space. The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photograph. The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ...
Known as Dean’s Blue Hole, this geological wonder located off the coast of Long Island is a staggering 663 feet deep, making it one of the deepest blue holes in the world and also an area ripe ...
Dragon Hole, also known as Yongle Blue Hole (Traditional chinese:永樂藍洞) after the third Ming emperor, Yongle, was the deepest known blue hole in the world at 300.89 metres (987.2 ft) deep [1] until it was discovered that the Taam Ja' surpassed it in 2024. [2]
The Space Force's distinctive blue and gray service dress uniform was unveiled at the Air & Space Forces Association's 2021 Air, Space, and Cyber conference. The dark blue was taken from the Space Force's seal and represents the vastness of outer space, while the six buttons represent that the U.S. Space Force is the sixth armed service. [156]
DSN – (communications network) Deep Space Network, a network of radio antennas used for communicating to spacecraft; DSS – (data) Digitized Sky Survey; DSFG - (celestial object) Dusty Star Forming Galaxy; DWE – (instrumentation) – Doppler Wind Experiment, an instrument on the Huygens probe
U.S. Space Force patch shapes, 2021. Each unit in the Space Force has an emblem in a shape depending on the unit type. [53] Each of the three field commands also have a distinctive color: Silver Grey for SpOC, Golden yellow for SSC, and Bluebird (Replacing initial Cannes Blue color) for STARCOM.