And there are good reasons for that. This dam is so big that due to its weight, the speed of rotation of the earth has decreased. Now China is going to break the record of its own largest dam in ...

Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...

This redistribution of mass slightly reduces the speed of Earth's rotation. The change in Earth's rotation has increased the length of a day by about 0.06 microseconds. While the effect is negligible ...

NASA has claimed that China’s Three Gorges Dam could slightly slow the Earth's rotation and extend the length of days. Located in Hubei province in central China, the massive infrastructure can ...

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But there’s a lesser-known twist: it might be subtly tweaking Earth’s rotation. According to NASA, the sheer amount of water held by this massive dam could slightly throw off our planet’s ...

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