Deserts

News has spread across the internet over the last day or two of a "hack" that allows you much more zooming on Google Maps. Unfortunately for all the people who've wasted hours scanning the earth, this is really nothing new.…

Here in Chile's Atacama Desert, there are many examples of ancient Incan geoglyphs, similar to the Nazca Lines in neighbouring Peru, but spread over a much wider area. In the northern desert the Chiza geoglyphs were made by carefully arranging…

In the desert of Mali, West Africa, we find the skull of an ex-cow, which was captured as part of the National Geographic Africa Megaflyover project. By the look of those horns, I'd say the skull probably once belonged to…

First it got Dugg, and then it got Slashdotted - but the fact remains that the enormous KFC logo recently constructed in Nevada is not the first logo (or brand) visible from space. In fact, it's debatable whether or not…

Er, Saharan Shipwrecks? Yup, shipwrecks in the desert! Okaaaay, so it's the beach, but it is the Sahara 🙂 Just down the coast there's another wreck, and as I zoomed out from there I found a third! Flickr has a…

This is Giant Rock in the Mojave desert, California, which is (wait for it)... the largest free-standing rock in the world. Er, right. But wait, there's more! George Van Tassel (the dude that built the Integratron) carved a small room…