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The Face of Mother Earth

Tuesday, 7th November 2006 by Alex

A poster over at the keyhole forums has discovered what does look remarkably like a kilometre-wide pair of rather luscious-looking female lips. If this were the face of Mother Earth, I wonder where the rest of her features are?

motherearth.jpg

The “lips” are actually in the Sudanese region of West Darfur, site of much of the ongoing Darfur conflict, and although at first they appear to be formed by some sort of small rocky canyon, the terrain data on Google Earth claims otherwise. At over 40 metres high, you could argue these lips were actually pouting.

Thanks to atlas1970 and via Gearthblog.

13 Responses to 'The Face of Mother Earth'

  1. 1. negrodomas says:

    Almost looks like another pair of lips ive seen º¿º

  2. 2. Titiou says:

    If you look upside down it doesn’t look like a canyon but rather like a hill

  3. 3. rob says:

    Agreed, Negrodomas.

  4. 4. Gesh says:

    Negrodomas,
    good to see that this was the first thought of the group.

    It looks good in 3D on GoogleEarth.

    Hey.. maybe there should be a body parts cattegory too.

  5. 5. Shabby says:

    If you zoom out you can see eyes, or…. bellybuttons? -_-’

  6. 6. Michi Disperso says:

    yes, i think the first question that everyone thought is “what kind of lips? XD”

  7. 7. James B says:

    Turn it 90 degrees - then “what kind of lips” becomes apparent,

  8. 8. rob says:

    Well of course you don’t understand the image just from the thumbnail.

    You need to zoom out fully to understand what Alex was on about:

    http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1139/picture1sq8.jpg

  9. Google Sightseeing Admin
    9. Alex says:

    lol! rob - I’m very glad the picture you linked to wasn’t of what I *thought* it was going to be of… ;-)

  10. 10. rob says:

    Thats for the ’subscription area’ of the site. :)

  11. 11. Abilio Fabio Nunes says:

    another lips?
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  12. 12. Abilio Fabio Nunes says:

    and other?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  13. 13. John Wayne says:

    oh ffs it looks like a pussy there i said it!

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