The Eye of the Sahara

A bullseye of concentric rock rings 25 miles wide sits in the Mauritanian desert, clearly visible from orbit.

Why we kept this

Astronauts use it as a landmark precisely because it looks too deliberate to be natural, and it still isn't.

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