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This geomorphological feature in Alberta, Canada is known as the Badlands Guardian. The blue-greenish patches on the photo are lakes that have formed into thermokarst. However, in the rare events that the soil layers melt, they warp the ground surface in different ways. The extreme cold weather in the Arctic results into freezing the soil layers almost all throughout the year.

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Well, at first glance, this Google Earth image looks like an oil painting of a reptile's skin but it's actually a surface from the Arctic located in the North American territory. According to Meteor Crater's website, the impact site was the result of an asteroid colliding with Earth at 26,000 mph approximately 50,000 years ago.

The crater spans nearly 1 mile across and has a 2.4-mile circumference. Meteor CraterĪrizona's Meteor Crater is the best-preserved meteorite impact site in the world and this Google Earth capture is just stunning. Right at the center of the pool, the water possesses a deep blue color due to the scattering of blue light by particles suspended in the water. Microbial mats populate the edges of the mineral-rich water, where the mats produce various colors between green to red. It's like a mono eye staring at you in all its glorious display of colors. Grand Prismatic SpringĬonsidered as the largest hot spring in the US and the third largest in the world, the Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming is one epic Google Earth find. The Great Sandy Desert spans a large area of the North Western side of the Australian continent and is the second largest desert in the country after the Great Victoria Desert. It's a small section of the West Australian Great Sandy Desert where random lakes and pools are sporadically spread throughout the red plain. Nature is indeed a marvelous wonder to behold and this Google Earth image can be mistaken for an art masterpiece. 'Located between the sea and a body of mountains at the point where the immensity of the sea meets the immensity of the desert, the work functions on two different levels in terms of viewpoint: from above as a visual image, and from the ground, walking the spiral pathway, a physical experience'. Danae Stratou, the project leader, expressed her team's approach to the installation of the enigmatic art piece. The upright cone and inverted cone spiral patterns were installed by three Greek artists and architects as they were inspired by the infinite vibe of the desert. Desert Breathĭesert Breath is a man-made double-spiral art located in the Egyptian desert near the Red Sea coast. It's a notorious location for volcanic eruptions and seismic activities hence it's given the name Ring of Fire.

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The visible dark lines you can see is the continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts that exist along the 40,000 km perimeter of the Pacific Ring of Fire. This massive tectonic plate traces its edges from New Zealand right up to Japan across through to California and all the way down to Chile. Some of us here in Interesting Engineering are earthquake nerds and the first thing noticeable to our eyes when you zoom right out of Google Earth is none other than the Pacific Ring of Fire. From there, you can start browsing through the various geoglyphs such as the El Astronauta, the Nazca Spider, the Nazca Monkey, and many other ancient geoglyphs. The images become too pixelated when you zoom right into specific lines but if you click on the image source link, you can access the Nazca Desert coordinates. We won't need to get on an aircraft though, Google Earth would pretty much do the job. The enigmatic ancient geoglyphs traced out on the plains of the Nazca Desert in Peru are only visible for those who are meters above the desert. If we're going to talk about interesting images that can be viewed from above then we need to begin with the Nazca Lines.