No, that’s not the surface of the moon. It’s where the US government has blown-up lots and lots of things at the “Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range” in Nevada, just south-west of Area 51. Also, scroll north and check out that big bad-boy crater.

Thanks to “eugene” for pointing out even more crazy stuff further to the north. Including this massive target, I assume for practice bombing.

One of the places on the map where the overlapping satellite images make for a weird perspective is in downtown Dallas. I’ve been staring at this for a while and I can’t get my head around the perspective change.

Thanks Radical Bender.

More weird patterns and colours here with some pollution controlling algae salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay and some salt pools potash mine run-off pools in the Utah mountains. (Via)

Edwards Air Force Base has this giant compass-thing scraped into the desert. I assume it’s to help pilots orientate themselves when landing or taking off.