Contest #148
Nothing to see here, you might think. Unless you zoom in on the centre and this appears:
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. Each Wednesday at 0:00 hrs GMT a hint will be published. If you submit a correct answer before the hint is out, you'll earn an extra point, so submit your guess as soon as you have an idea.
Meteorite impact crater in Egyptian Sahara
Comment by Pascal Gilbraith | July 23, 2010
Crater lake, Sudan-Egypt border, somewhere about
22°04’11″ N 26°05’05″ E
Sorry, but your first screenshot maybe inaccurate: I halved it vertically and horizontally (exactly) and nothing there.
Comment by hhgygy | July 23, 2010
It’s the Kamil Crater in southern Egypt desert.
Comment by Taliesin | July 23, 2010
Maybe I did not exactly halve your screenshot, I finally got the crater lake’s exacts coordinates:
22°01’06.22 N 26°05’15.58″ E
Comment by hhgygy | July 23, 2010
Kamil crater, southwestern Egypt. “Desert crater” on google news took me right to it, though I did actually locate it @
22’01’06.07″ 26’05’15.79″
Comment by Dennis S. | July 23, 2010
Sahara, on the border of Southwest Egypt and Northwest Sudan.
Comment by Milosh, Serbia | July 23, 2010
Kamil Crater, Egypt
just happened to see the Wired.com article on it today
Comment by Skip | July 23, 2010
Kamil Crater, Egypt
Comment by David S | July 23, 2010
Kamil Crater, East Uweinat Desert, Egypt
Comment by Murdock | July 23, 2010
The Border of southwest Egypt and northwest Sudan.
Comment by Exsanguinator | July 24, 2010
Egypt-Sudan border near 22N & 26E
Comment by David Kozina | July 24, 2010
Kamil Crater in southwest Egypt.
At first, I had no idea how to figure this out. Then I googled “desert crater” and found this after a few minutes of looking through the results.
Comment by Sarah G | July 25, 2010
Ok, I don’t know if you’ll accept this, but I really don’t know what exactly you are going for here.
The location is centered around 22 02 37 N, 26 08 02 E, which is near the Egypt/Sudan/Libya border.
I found it by looking at impact craters. The area around the “BP Structure” in Libya looked similar, so I looked around and found the artifacts at the bottom.
Please let me know if you need more than that.
Comment by Paul Franson | July 25, 2010
OK, I actually read the Nat Geo article, and I now understand. It is the Kamil Crater.
Comment by Paul Franson | July 25, 2010
Gustav Crater, Mars
Comment by AbbieX | July 26, 2010
That be the Kamil crater in Egypt.
Comment by Graham Foxall | July 26, 2010
Oops:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2010/07/one_of_the_youngest_craters_on_eart.html
Comment by Ben Bayer | July 26, 2010
Gouvernement Al Wadi al Jadid
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Egypte
Craterfield
Comment by Willem | July 28, 2010
Kamil crater
lat, lng = 22.018335, 26.087714
Located on Egypt side of Egypt/Sudan border
http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/07/27/25301/kamil-crater-egypt/
Looks like Vincenzo de Michele beat us to it! He gets the +!
“Browsing through google earth satelite images, Vincenzo de Michele, a former curator of the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale in Milan, Italy, first discovered the crater, while Folco published details from the verification trip in February in the 23 July issue of Science.”
“More than you want to know”: http://www.b14643.de/Sahara/Kamil_Patatrac_Crater/index.htm
It was very easy to find the large area given as a hint, but definitely took me a while to find this crater due to the low contrast. It was almost invisible to me at higher zoom levels. It doesn’t even show up as a cone when looking with 3x terrain exaggeration from an isometric view (another trick I tried which didn’t help at all).
An excellent clue Karel. By the way, it might be fun to have a WoGMoon or WoGMars at some point
Comment by Andy M, USA | July 29, 2010
Kamil Crater, southern Egypt
22° 1’6.05″N
26° 5’16.79″E
Comment by BroderUlf | July 29, 2010