This mysterious pattern in the Egyptian desert is in fact an art installation.
The structure isn't likely to be around forever though, as eventually the sand will fill in the man-made craters. It looks even more amazing from close up than from afar. UFOs, extra-terrestrial communications satellites, remnants of a mysterious prehistoric civilization? When this image emerged on Google Earth, it caused a little bit of a speculative stir, until it turned out to be a giant art installation called 'Desert Breath', dating back to only 1997. To be fair, it's probably about as fetid and mucky as what we suggested it looks like, but from the safe distance of Google Earth it looks pretty amazing.Ī giant, murky pool of hippos is probably best observed from a distance. This life-like face was discovered in 2006 on Google Earth, and has since been labelled the Badlands Guardian./ © ANDROIDPITĪ whole lot of hippos, Katavi National Park, Tanzania (6 53 53.00 s 31 11 15.40 e)įrom afar this looks like maggots swimming around in muck or something even more nasty, but actually it's a large hippo pool in Tanzania. Look closely enough, and you can see that he/she is actually wearing a pair of earphones (or, if you want to be boring and literal, you can see that it's a road). This spectacular feature shows a remarkably life-like face that resembles that of a Native American. It's a testament to the power of Google Earth that in 2006 someone used it to discover an geographical feature that has since come to be officially known as the 'Badlands Guardian'. Happy secret-hunting! Google Earth The Badlands Guardian, Alberta, Canada (50 0 38.20 n 110 6 48.32 w) To help you find these awesome Google Earth secrets, we've included the co-ordinates in brackets next to them: just type exactly what we've written in the brackets into the Google Earth search bar.
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