Mysterious Google Earth Discoveries That Will Make You Wonder

There is a dark and scary side to Google Earth, as will be revealed each time Google Earth discovered something particularly strange. #20 will flare more UFO conspiracy theories.

#2 Salt ponds, Niger

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Viewed from above and on Google Earth the salt ponds in the Saharan town of Teguidda-n-Tessoumt, Niger look incredibly strange. You’d be forgiven for thinking that they are a massive section of honeycomb or a collection of weird blobs.

There is a scientific explanation for this as they are actually merely salt ponds holding colored brine which gives it their peculiar appearance.

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