As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian name of the city and oblast , or province. In German, the city now called Kaliningrad was long known as Königsberg; in Polish it was Królewiec; and in Lithuanian Karaliaucius. The Russian name will be us...

Introduction: The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Mars Tumbleweed rover is a concept for a lightweight, spherical, deployable structure, with a configuration that maximizes drag to capture the Martian wind for mobility and extended mission duration. The wind-blown mobility of a Tumbleweed rover makes it an ideal platform for conducting distributed geophysical and meteorological surveys of b...

Cultivation of salt-tolerant crops help to face irreversible global salinization freshwater and soils. In New-Caledonia, three halophytes are candidates for saline crops, Salsola australis R.Br., Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort Enchylaena tomentosa R.Br. Their success quality depend yet on availabilities salinity essential nutrients in agrosystems. So, we investigated effects salinities, i.e., cont...

A biodiversity survey of Great Rann Kachchh was carried out from August 2021 to January 2022. During this survey, Salsola oppositifolia Desf recorded as a new record for the India. It various localities Kachchh. included hilly outcrops, muddy saline, bunds on fringes rann, etc.