Google Earth reveals an 8 km line of artificial grid-like structures in the Chinese desert. Now one researcher says she know why it's there.
Google Earth has a history of revealing strange objects in the deserts of China.
ast year, various websites reported the discovery of giant kilometre-sized concentric circles of military objects including jets in the Gobi desert. Analysts think these may be missile target zones.
Others websites reported the discovery of mysterious networks of lines in the Gobi desert. Some analysts believe these are designed to look like the networks of roads in a city and have been laid out in tehdesert so that nuclear missile guidance systems can use them for target practice.
Today, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy reveals another mysterious pattern in a remote part of China, this time the Taklamakan desert in western China.
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