![]() Mysterious Desert Pattern - Red Sea Governorate, Egypt 27☂2’50.10″N, 33☃7’54.62″Eīelieve it or not, this isn’t a landing pad for a spaceship but it is a 1 million square foot piece of artwork called - Desert Breath - to celebrate “the desert as a state of mind, a landscape of the mind,” according to the artists’ website. It began after World War II and it’s the largest military aircraft boneyard in the world. ![]() This is an areal view of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard in Tucson, Arizona. We’ve included the coordinates for every weird Google Earth destination we found.ġ. Thanks to Google Earth you can visit anywhere in the world from the comfort of your own couch. People are working from home, Zoom Meetings are the new normal, and who knows when we’ll be able to travel again. I went to Hawaii about a year ago for the first time and if I had known how much the world was gonna change in just a few months, I would’ve stayed. It blew my mind but it was kind of weird to see a picture of my house on the internet. Google Earth Community Page about the discovery of the feature.3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio.Story and Radio interviews with Supergranny, the person who discovered the feature on Google Earth. Gran's canyon is a net sensation, The Sydney Morning Herald.↑ PCWorld In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff J1:00 am.↑ 5.0 5.1 Badlands Guardian: Satellite Imagery from Google Earth Written by Rosemarie McKeon Friday, 08 August 2008 15:38.↑ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.↑ 3.0 3.1 CBC Radio: As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr.↑ 2.0 2.1 The Badlands Guardian Global TV Published: Wednesday, April 04, 2007.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006.Old Man of Hoy a rock pillar off Scotland that resembes a standing man.Old Man of the Mountain, rock profile in New Hampshire.'Face on Mars', photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.The Guardian was also covered by Canada's Global Television. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel". The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "net sensation". They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. Originally discovered by Lynn Hickox, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It was the winner of the RTNDA National- TV - short feature award for that year. In 2006 Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV Reporter Dale Hunter did a short feature on the Badlands Guardian. Although the image appears to be a positive feature, it is actually a negative feature (a valley), an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which has been in place only a few years, and will likely become invisible once the well falls into disuse and its superficial features are eroded. ![]() Because of additional man-made structure, it also appears to be wearing earphones. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full native American headdress. ![]()
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