![]() ![]() If you've ever wondered where airplanes go when they're retired, it's to an airplane boneyard like this one at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This photo isn't as much weird as it is really stinking cool. So, in other words, no, they didn't do this just for the benefit of Google's cameras! Editor's Tip: Not sure how to work your lens properly? Learn how to read the markings on your lens. Google doesn't need to send its cameras into space to find wild things to photograph.Ī few years ago while conducting street view photography, one of their cameras captured this strange scene of people dressed like pigeons.Īpparently this is a thing in this area of Japan - to do pigeon role play. Here's just a sampling of weird Google Earth images from around the world. ![]() That fact alone makes it one of the best photography inventions of all time, if you ask me.īut throw in the fact that Google Earth (and Google Maps, too) takes photos of some really weird things, and you have the makings for one heck of a way to entertain yourself. Badlands are found in several areas of North America.By now, it's no secret that Google Earth is an incredibly powerful tool that has allowed everyday people like you and I to explore areas of the world that we would otherwise never get to see. The constant erosion of the light sedimentary soil and clay means that there are many unique and strange geomorphic features and topographies which have intrigued people since the arrival of the First Nations. Winds and heavy rains carve channels in the rocks relatively quickly. The effect of wind and water on these landscapes means that they are constantly changing. They were formed during the end of the last Ice Age when glacial meltwater created valleys and steeps slopes out of the sedimentary rock and clay soil. The Badlands are desolate terrain of gullies, chasms, sinkholes, and hills. The location of the geological wonder is very remote, in an area that has been traditionally the home of the Siska First Nation People, often known as the Blackfoot tribes. The Badlands’ Guardian is near Medicine Hat in the south-east of Alberta and not far from the border with the USA. It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006 suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It has sparse vegetation and soft, clay soil. It receives little but intense showers of rain. The area covered by the Badlands Guardian is an arid land. The precise location of the Badlands Guardian on Google Earth is at the coordinates (50° 0'38.20"N, 110° 06' 48.32"W). The Guardian is regarded as one of Google Earth’s most remarkable finds. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox during the Google Earth project when they used satellite imagery and reproduced them in 3-D which led to the identification of the natural world. ![]() Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water.
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