I think they look like irrigation circles. If not, then I'd think they were settling ponds of some sort. They;re probably too big for that, though.

I wonder if that's a flare or a fire that's made the thick, black smoke in the town to the immediate east of the circles?

Yeah. I didn't noticed that. Seems like an oil field is on fire.

supermassive missle silos. like... big missles..

lol

Yeah - there's a rig to the right.

If you zoom in, the scale of these things is massive.

Each one of those circles is about 3/4 of a mile in diameter.

Irrigated circles. Similar circles in Utah

They look more dramatic when there's less green around them.

I have no idea. Each of those circles is 2/3 of a mile across.

At first I was thinking oil wells or that maybe Kurt was right and they are missile silos, but no way would they be that big.

When you zoom in close, there are green concentric rings inside them.

It seems unlikely that it's got nothing to do with what looks like the rig to the east.

I think you're right. There's the network of irrigation ditches feeding them from the river on the left.

Of course, that might just be water for the cooling tower OMG!

Have you never seen an irrigation sprayer? In the link I posted, you can even tell that some of them ar running--look at the circles that are brown, with part of it a darker brown. That dark brown line is the water as it pivots, and you can see that the ground lightens counter clockwise from the advancing sprayer.


This is a missile silo.

One explanation that I've read for these circles that holds water (pun intended) is that they are holding tanks for The Great Manmade River of Libya (which is where they are).

Where does the missile come out?

The ground.

To the right of the tower shadow. There's a concrete door that appears as a tannish block, with a whiter column angled to the upper-right from it.

It's a closed hole, though, nothing there. If you scroll around some from there, you can see a few other launch facilities. Some are still in use for test launches. No nuke ever goes in the hole, just the missile and the stages.

Mmmm, looks like chocolate

for the record... i didnt actually think they were missile silos... thats why i said supermassive lol i realized the scale... i was thinking planet busting size.

It's obviously inverted braille, made to be used by giants.

CRIBBAGE BOARDS

Really seems to be desert farming:

if you zoom in real close you can see the irrigation rig running out from the center of many of the circles.

how did you find this?

taking a google maps version of a stroll through the desert?