In a remote area of the Sahara desert lies a 3,000-foot-deep volcanic crater that looks like a hideous skull when viewed from space, NASA photos show.
NASA’s Earth Observatory said last week an astronaut on the International Space Station spotted an odd formation in the Tibesti Mountains in the Republic of Chad. The photos were originally taken in February of this year, and were later re-shared by NASA.
“The 1,000-meter (3,300-foot) deep volcanic crater and soda lake Trou au Natron in northern Chad has the appearance of a ghostly face staring back at you,” NASA’s Earth Observatory said in a blog post last week.
The photos show what appears to be a large skull formation, with two eye sockets and a nose surrounded by a white material that forms the appearance of a skull. NASA says the eye and nose sockets are actually “cinder cones—steep conical hills built around volcanic vents,” while the white stuff is “a mineral crust made of a salt known as natron.”
The Tibesti Mountains are considered one of the world’s most remote and remote areas, which has made Trou au Natron research difficult for scientists.
The formation looks like a skull in the Republic of Chad.NASA
NASA says that research shows the area was filled with glacial lakes about 14,000 years ago, and samples of fossilized aquatic algae collected in 2015 date back an estimated 120,000 years.
Last month NASA released images showing another “horrific face” captured as the Juno space probe flew past Jupiter.
“The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the planet’s day and night sides,” the image’s description reads. “The low sunlight angle highlights the complex topographical features of this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes taking place in Jupiter’s atmosphere.”
The Tibesti Mountains are considered to be one of the most remote and isolated areas in the world. NASA Salt deposits in the Tibesti Mountains. De Agostini via Getty Images
NASA says that people who see faces in space images are cases of pareidolia, which is defined as “an effect that causes the observer to see faces or other patterns in a largely random pattern.”
Michael Lee of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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