Contest #65
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How to Play
To participate, just make your guess in the comments section for each photo. Guesses will be held until the end of the contest, when they will all be made public. Anything and everything is fair game for getting a correct answer. Each contest will last one week, starting on Friday, so submit your guess as soon as you have an idea.
Its the world’s largest compass rose, dug into the flats at Edwards AFB, CA.
Comment by David S | November 11, 2008
I am sure every “Google Earth Freak” will recognise this instantly: it is the giant Compass Rose at Edwards AFB.
Comment by Karel | November 11, 2008
Huge compass rose at Edwards Airforce Base USA
Comment by Ewen | November 11, 2008
This is the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. This one seemed familiar (I think I’ve seen it before in a science magazine), and a quick Google search brought it up.
Comment by RDaneel | November 11, 2008
The worlds largest compass - at the NASA Dryden Research center/Edwards AFB in the Mojave Desert. 34 57′N 117 52′W.
Comment by ACG | November 11, 2008
Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Specifically, this is located at the Dryden Flight Research Center on the base.
This is a large compass rose, aligned to magnetic north, and used to allow research pilots to align their compass while in the air.
Did a Google search and found it within two searches.
-andy
Comment by Andy McConnell | November 11, 2008
Dryden Flight Research Center, California
Took about 3 minutes and one google image search
Comment by Aaron Predeek | November 11, 2008
The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base
Comment by Andy M | November 11, 2008
It’s the compass rose painted on the lake bed at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center near Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Comment by ej | November 11, 2008
Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA.
It looked like something military, I chacked airports in the Southwest, and found it.
Comment by Milosh, Serbia | November 11, 2008
It’s a giant compass at the Edwards Air Force base, in the Mojave desert. However I’m wondering about its exact use …
Comment by Michael T | November 12, 2008
Edwards AFB, California. I knew where it was immediately; it is the largest compass in the world and is used to calibrate heading. You can see it from most domestic US Airlines when making a flight from many of the airports in California enroute to Las Vegas.
Comment by Pan | November 13, 2008
Edawards Airforce Base, California, US
Comment by Willem | November 15, 2008
World’s largest compass rose at Edwards AFB, CA
Comment by Lotsofcats | November 16, 2008
N34º 56.04′
W117º 51.66′
It’s an airport (Edwards) in California - KEDW
Comment by seb | November 19, 2008
World’s largest compass rose on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA
Comment by Keith M | November 24, 2008