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And here it is on google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/qLSZxPZaATM2 https://goo.gl/maps/qLSZxPZaATM2
by b_emery 10y ago
And here it is on google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/qLSZxPZaATM2 https://goo.gl/maps/qLSZxPZaATM2
- harlanlewis 10y agoLooking at it from space, I'm much more interested in the small circular clearings of regular size that are everywhere in the surrounding landscape. Each one looks the size of a truck. What are those all about?
- DanielStraight 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation
- diggernet 10y agoI suspect the question was about these, which are MUCH smaller: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0316037,-115.4345986,129m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0316037,-115.4345986,129m/da...
- harlanlewis 10y agoYup, exactly. I don't think they're a source of materials used in the project (my first guess) because they can be found quite far away from the site, are present across varied terrain, and lack road access and indicators of work (eg tailings). Such uniformity in natural features always piques my interest. Will just be one of those endless mysteries of the desert, I suppose.
- Sanddancer 10y agoThose look a lot like creosote rings [1]. Creosote's native to southern Nevada and grows in clonal colonies that end up looking like rings, and that looks like a nice wide place where water would gather. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrea_tridentata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrea_tridentata
- dogma1138 10y agoLooks like natural phenomenon they are all over the place could be this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18855020/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18855020/ Or could be simply natural water drainage pools the middle dark spot in the middle kinda suggests that. Too many of them and they are all over the desert for it to be man made.