Sanbao, #Xinjiang on 7/17/2023 via Sentinel-2 satellite. Apparently there is water there, green fields baking in the hottest temperatures ever in China.
@ai6yr That's the first thing I thought when I saw that photo. Only because I hardly know geology, I was afraid "alluvial fan" might not be the right terminology so I held back. :)
Ah, look... interesting radar signature. Maybe a #crashed#airplane or bit of #meteor. 39.22312, 85.62173... Miles away from any human habitation or road. #Taklamakan
@ai6yr if you pan around the area there are similar to the shaped and colored objects. My guess is either depressions or rock outcroppings that have been uncovered.
Ha, I think I just ran across the one thing I do know that is out there, the #Xiaohe#Cemetery. Here's earlier imaging, I think it's the same thing. I need to check the coordinates. That's funny. Or, there's another one that hasn't yet been discovered that is similar. #satellite#Xianjiang#archeology (UPDATE: NOT THE SAME LOCATION AS XIAOHE!)
Well, if anyone is up for going to Xinjiang China (not exactly a good place for a foreigner nowadays), where it just 125F, into a desert where you cannot survive and which eats electronics, your radio can't get out, no humans ever go, and where you will probably perish, let me know what that is ;-)
Apple Maps view of the mystery location. I bet I found a new location... but will never know for sure, because the odds of someone going out there and surviving to take a look at it are almost nil. It's either another mystery cemetery, an asteroid, or a UFO crash site, LOL. #mystery#Xinjiang#satellites#archeology
@skry@ingalls Ah, good calibration point. Xiohe Cemetary on Bing Maps for comparison. So, likely rocks in the other location, you can see the Xiaohe Cemetary looks equally natural from satellite but the beams/wood placed in the location are quite distinctive (in a region with no trees, mind you).
@skry@ingalls Interesting, though, looking at my original location vs. Xioahe, now I am thinking it looks more similar than dissimilar. My location on left. Xiaohe on the right
@skry@ingalls Good though, but Worldview doesn't have nearly the resolution to pick that spot up. Sentinel-2 can't quite pick out details, but that location over time below...
@ai6yr I’ve been working on my Celsius/Fahrenheit mental approximations and that book fails math! 78c is 178f, lol.
Really enjoying this thread. Deadly and remote places are some of my favorites to learn about!
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