We previously featured the dying
Aral Sea back in January 2006, but since then much of the area
has been updated with high resolution satellite imagery. Which
means we can now see
several ships, abandoned
in the middle of a desert, a bit like the one in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/ Close
Encounters.
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Read our original
article for an explanation why these ships are here, and for
links to other things to see in the area.
Thanks to Gyorgy Takacs.
Update: Thanks to cowens and others who
informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of
land art called http://www.archipedia.org/landscape/desertbreath desert
breath. Click through for some images and a way better
description than I gave it!
What on earth is the purpose of
this massive spiral in the Egyptian desert?
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It appears to be made from near-perfect circles scooped from the
sand, which decrease in size toward the centre of the spiral -
where there is a much larger circular trench.
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Whatever the spiral’s purpose actually is, it must have taken a
serious amount of effort to put here.
Thanks to http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=547078&page=0
BZoltan