Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after six months in space in the longest crewed mission to date for the country's space program, AP reports.
Driving the news: The Shenzhou 13 space capsule landed in the Gobi desert in the northern region of Inner Mongolia on Saturday after 183 days in space, per Reuters.
Narrow corridors of air loaded with moisture straight from the tropics may be driving a series of ice shelf collapses in the fastest-warming part of Antarctica, scientists have found.
Why it matters: Ice shelves act like doorstops, holding back the land-based ice behind them. When they are lost or weakened, inland ice can melt faster, raising sea levels worldwide.
